Earthshine

15Feb07

Considering the moon’s dark face dimly lit by earthshine,
the light of the ancient governors processing through the zodiac
(the light of the deliberate planets) reaches us!
They, throughout time, have been impartial to right and wrong,
as an eye is impartial to the spectrum of visible light

Considering the light we see
as reflected many times, throughout time in many forms,
we are a flash of light at every moment, wholly dependent and independent
upon that which came before — as ashes are not charcoal,
as the light we see is not the star itself

Consider the eyes of the sudden opossum
stunned in the roaring car’s headlights —
two floating eyes bending the dark night

We stare into the lit future we’ve found,
share an iridescent awakening

From across the table you see me
as the moonlight on settled snow
reflects in my memory

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