It's Still Life

View From Behind Closed Eyes

sometimes
I close my eyes
and pretend that noon
is midnight,
and that the stars are shining
because

“Hati-the-Wolf” never
swallowed the moon
which caused stars to disappear,

and because
when I close my eyes
everything is darkness,
and my memory sees perfectly again.

Written for dVerse Poets  Poetic form: Quadrille, #202 “Darkness”. Hati the wolf is from The Elder of Poetica Edda. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Imagery and poems/prose ©Misky 2006-2024.