#1675 - making moonlight

 

1675

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31.viii.24

making moonlight

ekphrastic for Henri Rousseau’s 1886 ‘Carnival Evening’

 

clouds cast of it

leafless

 

with more and less face

 

little hats for a sky

points of light time

 

mountains

as far as we can tell

 

like a hearth

with days elsewhere

the horizon aglow

 

from the forest they bring the dream

 

in slippers

with ribbons

all aflow

 

half the world’s reaching

half’s on the way

 

dark above

and darker below