DEATH AND THE MOON - KEY QUOTES

at the end

of the year

i break the ice over

the fish in my frozen pond

ghosts of my

wordless breath

I could touch

the edge of the moon

hard rain, tough confetti

and tossed it down

It stuttered like morse

on the wood over your eyes

Then, as I slept my

living sleep

in the red cave of

your widow’s unbearable cry

Unreachable by prayer even

if poems are prayer

if souls are stars. I turn to the house,

its windows tender with light

the goldfish are tongues

in the waters mouth

the black night is

huge, mute

and you are further

forever than that