The Serious Moonlight | Axis Reflections |Axisoflogic.com

For David Bowie

If you say run, I’ll run with you
If you say, hide we’ll hide

crisp starry winter cold
when moonlight becomes lovely and serious

many a summer love found
and lost under a moonlit night

multi-faced and faceted
pearl-like

beautifully creviced
like a grandmother’s face

a magician’s assistant
disappearing and reappearing

old man and pubescent tune
maybe even see a rune

on my childhood bedside wall
the cow jumped over the moon

it’s cliché
but you have to
sometimes
howl at the moon
lest it all
get too serious

Bowie a Bugs Bunny of personas
keep dancin’ in the moonlight

gender-bender music-sender befriender
may the music of the spheres
be heard within your
timeless ears

Note: title and epigraph from his song “Let’s Dance”

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small press publisher and Turtle Islander. His recent book is “Drive-thru Theofascism & The Hero's Journey” and the newest is “Dear_______, poem-letters to friends and enemies.” You can contact him via his literary website.

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