Tuesday, January 11, 2011

First Selection, December, 2010

Looking

forward from

where you

are: the

moon-light

masked by

the

manufactured

haze hangs

amidst white

clouds like

doubts that

linger in the

mind. You

can’t touch

the light cup

it like water

that slowly

seeps

through

unsteady

fingers . . . no;

you can only

think about it

wave your

hand before

your face

watch the

moonlight

peekaround

the corners of your hands

their deliberate gestures

and try to understand

that even

light must

find its own

way through

the human

murk that

drifts across

the smoke-

smothered

sky.

--Michael Patrick McSweeny

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