More Moon
Lunar meditations that have me shivering at the modest repetition of the word "more" and thrilled that intimations of mortality provide occasions for such eloquence along the slippery spine of syntax.
Because, once looked at litJames Merrill. "Voices from the Other World" in The Country of A Thousand Years of Peace.
By the cold reflections of the dead
Risen extinct but irresistible,
Our lives have never seemed more full, more real,
Nor the full moon more quick to chill.
And so for day 291
01.10.2007