"Cycle" (For Kevin A. Merino)

Cycle

 

                   “You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.”

                                                    Keith Richards  

 
                                      
                                                       For Kevin, the history teacher…

 

The moon hangs low

on its fishing line,
dangling at the end of a hook,

episodically close,

dressed in full ball gown,
designed to tempt the nightlife,

those unique souls

whom show themselves
but once a month, suddenly wakened,

celestially vibrant,

cyclically alive, unknowingly
salivating from the influence of the lunar bait.




                          ~~~

First published in print in Conceit Magazine / June 2014

First published online in Home Planet News

http://homeplanetnews.org/AHPNONL8.html
March 2014