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MOON AND SHADOW |
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White night: sleep eludes, brushes lightly, darts away, a vampish muse stirring cur- tains and rustling the moods of a velvet night. The moon sits in a tree, huge and round, lava smudged, taking its ease, snug and secured in place by a net of branches. It won't move until I sleep. Then it will siip its moorings and float to a new anchor low in the morning west. There it will pale and fade with the day's advance. But now it waits, a luminous coin giving the night a texture of thin white paint, a gauze backdrop onto which trees lay shadows, black puddles of Ror- schach design on a white lawn, puzzle shapes splashed down from pine garland in accor- dion widths of black crepe. |
DON AMMONS |
from New Hope International Writing Vol.16 #5 Next poem Previous poem |
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