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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Three Moon Poems


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

3 comments:

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  2. “How dark the sky...” was published in The Ekphrastic Review (July 1, 2018).

    Credits - original publications:

    “Nocturne,” Boston Poetry Magazine (September 4, 2014)

    “The Moon and River and Silence,” Torrid Literature Journal, Volume XXIV (July 2019), page 14

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  3. The poem “How dark the sky...” was also published in PoemVillage (April 19, 2022) by the Adirondack Center for Writing.

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