It's Still Life

The Moon

was never meant
to take the night alone.

Stars drift through the shallows
of its black plate, and the air

soft as the back of thighs,
and dark as a square of night.

And the moon
turned its face away, and stared

deep into earth’s mirrored water,
waves turning like pages.

For Twiglet #265 “turning pages””.  WikiArt Image: Noekken, 1904, by Theodor Severin Kittelsen  ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting #apoemaday on Twitter