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Moonlight
Cycloptic eye there tranquilized
You get no grief from me
You’re the maven, the mind of spies
The seeker of the dreams
Whose peek (popped out of velvet mane
Of scalpelled sky and screech)
Unlocks a light of un-restrain
in quarters of your reach
Like where the paws erupt from knolls
Scratch earth and feast off streets
Where manatees and dover soles
Splash oceans and the fleets
Where mists on clocks of crying pearls
Stroll down and clump the sands
Where tiptoe thieves lift from the murk
And hide ‘hind garbage cans
Where winks of yours hit irises
Of hungry lovers’ eyes
And tickle-kiss the pyruses
As do the fireflies
It’s in the fullness of your swell
(Or the arc of your squint)
That reveals assorted tales
Of the nighttime spent
But in your locket holds the jewel
Of how to disregard the dark
Of how to shine despite the fools
Of how to speak to earth and hark
Oh, muse of million millenniums
I applaud your lunar might
The phases of your idioms
That streak upon the night
