Saturday, September 26, 2020

The Moon is a Blood Orange



The moon is a blood orange:
half devoured, rotting,
lolling just above the town.

A shade of Autumn ripeness,
of succulence
as Caravaggio might picture it.

Like a blown rose’s tarnished beauty,
like young love, its transience 
prompts a blissful melancholia.



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