His eyes werent what they once
were
but there was an astonishing takeaway in their -- he
laughed -- their poor peering
this evening outside on the
wraparound porch he leaned at its railing
to take in the ascending
lunar prelude to the ninths Super Moon
had he seen what everyone else with good eyes saw
it
wouldnt have been as compelling
rather
to the south over a reef of
black silhouetted trees
he saw the bright pearl of the moon emerge from behind a black cloud and
dangle
almost like a
lure for then from the west two mad wolves on a rush came towards it
they were in full gallop full lather
tongues lolling teeth bared
it seemed the moon were a sudden bone a knob a humeral head and they
they were trying
to outrun and outmuscle the other to feast at its brilliant white sheath
its darling
marrow within
he heard their snarls and spits
as they snapped at each others muzzle and lips at their ears laidflat their throbbing jugulars
he heard the thumps of their heavy shoulders at each other trying to throw the other off stride
or off their pure
line to the moonbone
though
none of it was enough
and before they could launched
themselves at it
a
black cloud its edges bleeding stark nefarious
like ganglion trimmed in silverwhite
vivaciousness swept over the piquing drama
hiding the moon the bone
hiding the snarling wolves
scuttling and muting their snarls
bays and howls
the black cloud seemed aware of
him
it
boiled growing larger and larger and drew
nearer and nearer
frightened it would engulf him he
fled back into the house
he
heard it rub itself across the roof and at the sides of the house the tines or scales of a snake
a dry husk abrading
scratching at windows shuttering them and they going blind and dull
their faces
bleak and effaced
it sounded like a silent hungry animal
the bone not enough
the wolves not enough
he stood in the livingroom still
scarcely breathing like a mouse
he must have fallen asleep
standing up
for when she gently touched his
shoulder he thought he woke
outdoors he could hear the birds calling dawn
-- Were you up all night love
-- I must have been Im exhausted
Did you hear the sounds at the house last night
-- No I
had a hard time falling to sleep because of the moonlight It was awfully bright
I could see it
through my eyelids
-- Did you see the moonlight
falter
-- No But
it must have because I finally did fall asleep
I think maybe I heard you come in from outside
Uuh Youre cold
Come lay with me a bit and Ill warm you up Maybe well fall back to sleep
-- Im tired
I could fall asleep
-- Did the dogs keep you awake then
-- Dogs
-- I thought I heard a
dogfight though maybe they were in my
dreams or during the twilight
just before I
fell asleep during hypnagogia
-- How do you remember hypnagogia always
I can never remember that word
-- And thats why Im here Come
Lets lay down Maybe the dogs will
start again
-- No I
dont think so
-- So sure arent you
-- No Theyre
gone sweetheart They wont be back
0000, Sunday,
8 9. 14
