The moon speaks to me through my window slit,
curtain and blinds open just enough for fresh air
to relieve me in the night
The moon speaks to me announcing it is 3 o’clock
it chatters away for 20 minutes about plans, loves, problems, recipes
Please be quiet and let me sleep, I say in moon-speak
Wake up and love me, it replies
Meanwhile, car headlights in the drive below
mark the return of my car-pooling bar tending neighbor
she is tired at the end of her shift, dinner and bed will come quickly
She tossed drinks and mixed spirits all night
for others, now the stars put her to sleep
I toss and turn awaken by the commotion of conversation
between heavenly bodies and earthly
Please do me a favor moon, put me to bed, send me to sleep
till the sun rises, tuck me up in sheets of silver beams, warm
me in your glow, watch over my spirit when it jumps out
to dream, be my Guardian tonight and…
just shut your mouth!
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| Moonlight Through Window, watercolor by Vinderburger |
shannon p. laws 