gradual

a bit Luney this morning before the sun also rises.
Surely the shades of light that differentiate the choices of simple card samples in the paint department
are more gradual.
from "sidewalk chalk in August"
to "chalk on a sidewalked on"
to "sidewalk chalk choking in a drizzle"
to "splashed off crying the next day chalk"

my luney moon moods that need to Place at least before
the sun also races
ain't so gradual

I'm lit by the promise of
full moon in a perfect world
and darkened
at the edge of Half-Moon Quarry.

So we'll safe & lazily gaze back at something from
lunar months & months ago

JUNE (to a muse)

s t a r e s

that moon is a cliche'
for howling wolves.
lunar muse pulls away at;
a tide, all to write all,
to draw in a cave.

a young man must walk.
Late night. streetlight to streetlight
blurry bleak alleys, not just black, just dark.
It watches..wit nesses
pushfollows him home.

An old man must watch.
Late night. from his door down his driveway
blurily peaks always
up to his moonscape
cloudblanket backs his bloom
queen anne's lace against the face of his
luminous Orchid.