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Moonlit by Mermaid



THE MOON’S OCCASION
By Noctua

The trees rise out of the thick fog.
Dinosaurs with headlight eyes
cruise through the muslin.
White women wander in the night
weeping sprays of perfume.
Light streaming through leaves
Heralds the presence of a god.
On some corner under an elm
the moonshell of a young women opens.

The streets clairvoyant and shining,
houses enclosed in membranes,
people asleep wrapped in soft eyelids,
lone cats vanish in the shadows.

The satyr passes out of the park.
His hoofprints turn the tar to loam.
Pythons are roped across branches.
The vapors of our dreams
are breathing in the street.