Honesty: A Poem

Friday, January 30, 2009

The crescent moon has fallen to its back,
and the night is glass,
and on the wall in the room where I lie waiting
hang the hollowed eyes of a ram,
the perfect bone
of what gets left,
of what will be watchful then:
Self unto soul unto self.

There is a difference between
the dawn and the light.
One seeks.
One hurries.

6 comments:

Em said...

Happy Friday! Thanks for posting this lovely poem. I hope you have a fun weekend planned! :)

Liviania said...

I love these lines:

the perfect bone
of what gets left,

Sherry said...

I've been watching that 'crescent moon' which 'has fallen to its back.'
It is a nice place to untangle one's self.

Maya Ganesan said...

I love every line. It's so perfect.

Beth Kephart said...

Thank you, all. A poem written at 3 AM yesterday morning, in exhausted desperation.

Anna Lefler said...

Can I just say that anything I wrote at 3 am in exhausted desperation would sound like the drunken burblings of a merchant marine?

I'm just sayin'.

XO

Anna

P.S. Yours is, you know, a lot better than that would sound.

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