ANCIENT MOON<\/strong><\/p>\nAncient moon
\nhovering silently so high
\nnail sliver<\/p>\n
Perfect circle portion witness
\nover chip and wale of lamb fields,
\nhigh wolf ridges<\/p>\n
Dogs howl and sing,
\nremember their wolfenness
\nor sober, sleep in domestic bedding<\/p>\n
Cats make their own security
\npurr themselves happy
\ntails twitching
\nlike firelight<\/p>\n
We look up to the moon
\nsome chalk not easily plundered
\nawesome, distant, pure
\nmoment of stillness<\/p>\n
What is human wolf
\nto human dog in terms
\nof moon — did our
\nchimpy ancestors
\nlook up?<\/p>\n
Or is moon
\nmore our thing
\nused to decorate art
\nand myth, vehicle
\nfor parsing reality into
\ndichotomies?<\/p>\n
Can we see moon and sun
\nas features of same thing?<\/p>\n
More fundamentally one
\nthan two?<\/p>\n
Purr ourselves whole howl?<\/p>\n
Shepherd wolf lamb oneness?<\/p>\n
Do birds look up at it? (The moon)
\nDo fish?<\/p>\n
How does our
\nmammal softness
\nfit
\nwith its rocks
\nand towering light?<\/p>\n
~ Lady<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
Fly Me to the Moon<\/strong><\/p>\nDo you suppose the moon howls at the wolves,
\nand they’re only answering?<\/p>\n
It whispers to me, the moon,
\nme a man who would be known.<\/p>\n
No, a mutant who would be known by man,
\nas if that would soothe the missing.<\/p>\n
To thine self be known.
\nThere is no other answer.<\/p>\n
If you return without the answer,
\nthey send you out again.<\/p>\n
~ Steven B. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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