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Mariposa Lily

Mariposa Lily

November 11, 2011

To the November Moon and Kelley Goewey

The lonely full moon floats
  In an indifferent, all-black sky
  above the busy, purposeless
  to-and-fro of red and yellow
  lights on the expressway.

What are you seeing,
  O wide, wide-eyed Moon?
What are you trying to say, Moon,
  with your round open mouth?

Would you impart whispered secrets,
  lumined slivers of wisdom
  could we but hear your voice?
Are you singing to us, O Moon,
  the lullabies of the cosmos,
  were the deafness of our ears to fall away?

Somewhere, at a lonely desk
  in an indifferent room
  with the moon's full face serenely shining above
A girl catches glimmers of something more
   and silently scribbles poetry.

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