Moon

Regard the moon, La lune ne garde aucune rancune, She winks a feeble eye, She smiles into corners. She smooths…

The night, black,
slipping through my eyes

The wind, crying,
captured by the town

The moon, white, pale,
scared by a nightmare

The dogs, barking,
warning in vain a catastrophy

You, beautiful, sleeping motionless, beside me.

The dark disk of the moon creeps across the setting sun during the first solar eclipse of 2009, as seen on Monday from Manila Bay in the Philippines. People viewing from the southern Indian Ocean were among the few to see the full annular eclipse, so called because at its peak the eclipse is surrounded by an annulus, or ring, of fiery light.