the moon is full, ensnared, as they say, in the branches of a tree (in this case, the branches being bare, ashen and brittle).
once, to me, the moon was like a hole in the sky, when a. and i walked across the sand near midnight, the ocean at our backs, and i imagined, because i couldn’t see the ocean, that we were in a desert – a persian desert – with no destination in sight.
and once the moon was so bright it rivaled the sun, though its light was silver white and its rays were like a pollen of radiance. that was in new zealand, in moetueka, i believe, after d. and i – sweet d., who is more made out of moonbeams than a. ever was – canoed in the jade-colored tasman sea.
at this age and still the moon enraptures, makes me want to write a poem. i guess there is still some wonder in the world.