moon – Elizabeth Oakley Weaver

Love as…

       And if you are to love,
Love as the Moon loves;
     it does not steal the night
          It only unveils
The Beauty of the dark

isra al-thibeh

Night Snack

Tonight we plucked that apricot moon
and ate it,
not in a gulp,
but with long laps of tongues,
carving of teeth,
squeezing nectar against palettes
till it trickled
down
our
open
throats.

Thank you to the editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King for first publishing this in HOT FLASHES 2.