Scott Galasso Poet Free verse

Notes About The Poem

This poem is a tribute to Joseph Stroud's poem Night for Day, only looking at it from the opposite perspective. In his poem he speaks of black as night things that appear during the day. For example,  referencing watermelon pits that are seen by day at a picnic. So I took that concept and wrote about light that appears at night i.e. stars the Milky Way etc.

Day in Night

Day in Night  
                    

Starlit diamonds pinprick opaque night 
and planets punctuate darkness. The Milky
Way in clear desert skies traverses a distant
galaxy. The perfect orb moon, earth’s companion 
refuses to surrender her bright beacon at night,
does so only reluctantly, in fingernail phases. 
Her lunar light pierces clouds to kiss moving
waves, cast shadows on all she may touch. 

Fireflies flicker, snowy owls hoot, cream blanches
coffee, till dawn reclaims cerulean skies.

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