03-18-2013, 11:52 AM
Contrast
I
am pale as the moon
tinted with peonies.
You
are soft lunar eclipse,
a bright embrace of shadow
arousing the stars.
We
are limbs intertwining-
a tangle of branches,
paper birch and wild cherry,
that cast shadows on snow
even in the dark
Visible with eyes shut tight-
Love is blind.
I
am pale as the moon
tinted with peonies.
You
are soft lunar eclipse,
a bright embrace of shadow
arousing the stars.
We
are limbs intertwining-
a tangle of branches,
paper birch and wild cherry,
that cast shadows on snow
even in the dark
Visible with eyes shut tight-
Love is blind.