night waltz

by Illuminara

Posted to Action Poetry on 2002-09-05 19:29:00

Parent message is 277550
and night dictates
the swing and sway
of moon-
the serenade of every
evening past
in bundled
goosed-raised flesh
when that note hangs
and plummets to
the breast,
I die;
a fatal quiver
of fermata through my chest