The Moon, full, and pumpkin bright,<\/p>\n
glares through my window blinds tonight,<\/p>\n
searching past my window pane,<\/p>\n
some hidden truth to ascertain,<\/p>\n
of keeping nightbourne hours well\u2014<\/p>\n
a secret kept and cannot tell\u2014<\/p>\n
and pay no homage to the gibbous god<\/p>\n
of rest; from tilling of the sod,<\/p>\n
from to and frow at tidal whim,<\/p>\n
rendering a slave of him.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Jealous of these night-owl words,<\/p>\n
he pokes the blinds with golden swords,<\/p>\n
seeks entry to my poet\u2019s world\u2014<\/p>\n
my freedom from the daylight lords\u2014<\/p>\n
whereon the page, his piercing falls,<\/p>\n
caressing words. The night-owl calls.<\/p>\n
Moon-feathered light, the winged-words fly,<\/p>\n
to distant stars in the glistening sky;<\/p>\n
my page bereft of captive thought.<\/p>\n
Unchained ideas, no longer caught.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The granite sky, he drinks like ale,<\/p>\n
and drains the night, then morning pale<\/p>\n
refills the goblet with sparkling wine,<\/p>\n
as sunlight limbos through the blinds\u2014<\/p>\n
drawn tight from dusk until dawn intrudes\u2014<\/p>\n
dulling, once more, Me and Moon.<\/p>\n
The words, full-weight, fall back to earth,<\/p>\n
to slumber on their parchment berth,<\/p>\n
where pen and patter of moon-kissed verse<\/p>\n
may yet recapture the golden words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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