Absent Moon
-There are moments, sometimes days, when the moon goes dark. In between these, within the markers of time, you cannot discern the waxing and waning, the shifting of tides. Sand keeps sifting. You become lost in a permanent midnight, consumed by falling stars, leaving streaks of light across the sky. Your eyes scan, leaping from one to the next, leaving traces of dissolving smiles on your lips. They taste salted, broken like the feeling at your fingertips as they trace the jagged journey of your trajectory, in the absence of the moon. You do not move, you fall, as the […]