Saturday, January 23, 2016

Moon Water

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Out of the range of men

Of the things they do

Alive in the silent woods

Known only by my tracks

Through the clean deep snow

Struggling in the lavender dusk

To find in the shadow of the earth

Those few glittering souls

Lost telling myself

Not yet

Nights

When the bone-white moon

Lifts out of the trees

And falls back again

Through the cabin window

To lie in the jar of water

Set out on the desk

And I drink again.