Summer Night Dyad

In honor of the last One Shot Wednesday hosted by the team that has brought so much encouragement and growth to so many writers, myself most of all, I'd like to dedicate this entry with the thanks of a full heart to 

Brian Miller, Adam Dustus, Pete Marshall, Chris Galford, Claudia Schoenfeld  

& Gay Cannon.

You will be missed.

Summer Night Dyad

I.

The Night, The Moon and The Lovers

Up and above in the swinging night,

far from red walls and flying knives,

the kestrel flies with a mouse in her mouth.

The scorpion wags her tail in the south.

The firedrake sleeps in his sulphurous cave

spooned in the high cliff above the wave.

A flickering lantern orange and brief

still fights the moon in her silver sheath;

two lovers sail in a boat of breath

and love till they have nothing left.

When the heart is spent and hollowed like clay,

it becomes a lamp to light the way

Skybluepink lips of deepest night

cup the moon in an overbite;

she’s a melting scoop of vanilla ice cream

 tipped in a cone of clouded dream.

The flame persists though the wind is sharp;

The faeries come out to dance to the harp.

II.

Shooting Star

The beating heart of night rocks

the star cradle on her breast gently gently

in the warm southern wind,

but still every so often a star falls out

bright and sudden, a streak thin as a broom straw

scratched off against purple floor,

a white chip on black china

a match that lights

and is blown out.

Oh to be in that cradle rocking, lulled

with the whistling of constellations,

the voice of a mother, vast and mild

caring as much as she can

for her brood of legion,

at the edge of

the ear

humming

lullabies;

to rock

and sleep

then

to fall,

a

brief

light

in the

dark

to 

wish 

on.

July 2011

Posted for   OneLastShotWednesday   at  OneStopPoetry

Process Note: Sky blue pink is a color my grandparents used to tease me with as a child. If I complained about wearing something, they would always say, "What do you want, a sky blue pink dress?"

Photo: Blue Moon with Skybluepink Clouds, by joy ann jones, july 2011