How dark the
sky…
How dark the sky,
Bright the water
When silver fish
Reflect the moon.
NOCTURNE
I
am a lover of the moon and silence,
Silence
milky as the moon,
Moon
radiant as silence.
Silence
is silver fish in black water,
Moon,
bright flour and hot yeast,
Rolled
into a fist,
Exhaling
as it rises.
Push
night against day,
Leave
a small opening
—the
moon.
Feed
the wind
So
it lies quietly,
Rising
with effort
—silence.
Faraway
plume of white smoke,
Twilight
crossing the border,
Comet
in exclamation,
I
see, not hear.
Heartbeats
quickened by grief,
Engine
roar beyond the wall,
Secrets
spoken in a dream,
I
hear, not see.
Blinded by
the moon, I call out in my heart to silence striding into blackness beyond
earshot.
THE MOON AND RIVER AND SILENCE
Guided by the
moon,
Traveling
downriver,
I am
enraptured by silence.
All I hear
is, delicate, song of my oar
As it dips
gently, emerges,
Streamlets,
bright notes running down the edge
Of the blade,
silver spoon, glistening.
I listen to
the moon…
River,
warbling bird…
Illumined by
silence.
Crickets dare
not crack their knuckles.
Moon over Lake Superior |
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“How dark the sky...” was published in The Ekphrastic Review (July 1, 2018).
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“Nocturne,” Boston Poetry Magazine (September 4, 2014)
“The Moon and River and Silence,” Torrid Literature Journal, Volume XXIV (July 2019), page 14
Gonzalinho
The poem “How dark the sky...” was also published in PoemVillage (April 19, 2022) by the Adirondack Center for Writing.
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