Saturday, September 17, 2005

moon

TALL,
proud moon:
rising about three inches
(from my perspective of
the ground).
Now I know
what Langston Hughes
saw that night in Harlem,
as he sat
listening to the world screaming.
This isn't a sliver of goodness,
but a giant,
ripe peach
floating in the night sky.

2 comments:

. : A : . said...

"This isn't a sliver of goodness,
but a giant,
ripe peach
floating in the night sky."

Wonderful.

Anonymous said...

I adore the ending too, like .:A:. above, even if mOON wasn't part of my blog name. :)
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