Show Moon

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look out your window, the moon is huge
but not bigger than life, smaller than that,
though big enough to make life take a look,
to admire a midnight sun with hint of rouge
upheld in a mosh-pit of trees, bare limbs a dark mesh
across a field upon a sky of blue-grey steel which,
as long as nights last and days begin
will be the place this moon plays, stage rear,
then up and front as it climbs a starry scrim
and down again —and life applauds
before it disappears

by Jim Culleny
11/16/13