By the Dark of the Moon - Stork Rein

[Lawrence Robinson]

By the Dark of the Moon
         with thanks to David Ray


Last night I had a New Moon dream.

Sea otters floated in Monterey Bay,
puzzled by a variety of books
dancing on the shore.
Puzzled, not by their dancing, but by
their blank pages flapping 
as they pranced and called out,
“Take us, feed us, we are starving,
we have no meaning. Index us, 
Content us, fill us with
Epigrams, Footnotes, Bibliographies.”

The otter nearest to me turned and smiled,
offered a pen. In the morning
my bed sheets were covered with poetry.

Thank God.

	- Stork Rein 
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