Shadows

Complicated shadows

slide on the moon,

frost themselves with pewter dust

to hide upon the dunes.

Bowing to the Earth

 as she twirls from afar,

theorize about her,

this, their blue-green star.

Shadows mock the silence

as they dance to its tunes,

while

bowing to the Earth

and hiding on the moon.

(Diana Reh Hunt)

Shredded Moonbeams

Shredded moonbeams fall on the hill
where night-things gather them
and tuck them away,
for this is the only light
that will ever come their way.

Day-things seek
this hidden knowledge still,
but fail to look up
at moonbeams on the hill.