Their shadows were long and separated,
much stranger than she remembered.
But there are no villains in this story.
much stranger than she remembered.
But there are no villains in this story.
The trees were silver-coated in moon-shine,
much brighter than she remembered.
much brighter than she remembered.
And she knew well, now, to carry swiftly over grass.
She shivered in her nakedness,
reaching for the moon, “darling! Dear!
I’ve been watching you closely all across the night,
watching you take temporary hiding
and showing your bruised and battered cheeks.
I have seen you radiate tonight, give life to a few great things.
I saw you transform grass into hair that covers my body. I watched you,
taking on different faces
of different animals.
I heard you when you asked me to swim in your shine.
I heard your whistle, I heard your song. I heard you promise
not to expose my silly, selfish secret. What did that matter anyway?”
Her breath swam and fluttered.
It tangled over different faces and she wanted to reach her hands
to his face in a promising gesture,
to tear open his jawbone and climb inside,
to unravel his entrapped words.
She shivered in her nakedness,
reaching for the moon, “darling! Dear!
I’ve been watching you closely all across the night,
watching you take temporary hiding
and showing your bruised and battered cheeks.
I have seen you radiate tonight, give life to a few great things.
I saw you transform grass into hair that covers my body. I watched you,
taking on different faces
of different animals.
I heard you when you asked me to swim in your shine.
I heard your whistle, I heard your song. I heard you promise
not to expose my silly, selfish secret. What did that matter anyway?”
Her breath swam and fluttered.
It tangled over different faces and she wanted to reach her hands
to his face in a promising gesture,
to tear open his jawbone and climb inside,
to unravel his entrapped words.
But his lips possessed a grave history of lying for his own benefit.
She heard the sky move above her,
and in a single great movement sacrificed her great journey.
He watched when she hit the ground and heard the great cry of her rattling eyes,
She heard the sky move above her,
and in a single great movement sacrificed her great journey.
He watched when she hit the ground and heard the great cry of her rattling eyes,
lose,
shaking inside her head.
He thought himself brave, wanting to hold them steady,
to embrace them in a calmness.
But her skin possessed a softening ability, under the control of autumn dew.
He thought himself brave, wanting to hold them steady,
to embrace them in a calmness.
But her skin possessed a softening ability, under the control of autumn dew.
He reached downward for the lashes on her face
and replied to his midnight friend,“Lady,
and replied to his midnight friend,“Lady,
I was with you before
and I’ll be with you again.”
And before she found herself a face without eyes,
he spoke to her again,“you are freed.”
