MOON RISING AND SETTING

Moon Rising and Setting

Moon Rising and Setting



The

moon

begins to

rise above

us

The

ocean

sparkles up a

the night sky

still

The

wind blows

stirring sand

around the shore

down.

With its platinum light seeping through frosted windows from the glasses' cold invitations, the moon itself is but an illuminated silver teardrop dripping ever-so-slowly down the speckled, unreachable sheet of black expanse. The clouds drift by without notice, occasionally trying to vainly wipe some form of encouragement to that circular drop in the consolation as if saying, "We too are forgotten! You, moon, are not alone in this existence of invisibility!" (Gladding, 2002).Yet the moon is deaf and hears not, for it ...