moon joy forgive the lonely trespassers but also the lovers lounging in quiet meadows i am every blade of grass your naked foot presses firm to the unmovable earth i am an estranged pause coveting your attention beneath the solitary moon i am a fool stranded in the darkness of this landscape wandering aimless as a ghost even wild madmen fall in love & maybe we fall deeper than most ordinary men we dissolve like stars dissolve like fortune cookies & oranges dissolve like the prayers of children last poem about the moon we carried it as far as we could carried it through the forest placed it beside a quiet pond the frogs cried out in the night the crickets played their dirge we held back tears & mourned & waited for the furious sun to shine its light on us all no moons the madmen filter out the forest & assemble in the town square they request an ordinary hea...