Sunday, April 1, 2012

Moonlight

It delivers a promise from the sun
upon a slender shoot whose spiky tip
slices black windows.
Yet night still penetrates,
an ink stain upon linen,
and the owls, ever vigilant,
stare wide eyed into the deep darkness
of our shadowed insecurities.


1 comment:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

MICHAEL KESHIGIAN, author of six poetry chapbooks, has been widely published in numerous national and international journals. Recently, his collection of poems entitled Lunar Images, was set to music for Clarinet, Piano, and Narrator by Boston composer Dennis Leclaire and premiered at Del Mar College in Texas on November 5, 2010. A Boston premier took place on March 7, 2011 at the Berklee College of Music as well as a performance in Moleto, Italy in September of 2011. (michaelkeshigian.com)

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