Thoughts On a Cloudy Night

When the milky fog of clouds darkens, almost disappearing And the moon glares down, its white blank face leering I sit in the crisp green grass Whose dew has turned to shards of diamond glass The stars obscured by giant's breath And the sky dims as dark as death My thoughts dim, wandering and flitting from star to star And pounce on moons like a jaguar On planet's rings my thoughts flip and sing My mind knowing these things behind the clouds are hiding My fingers clench and sift through the damp earth below As my eyes and face upturned in the moon's faint glow The wind races around, ruffling my hair and beating my face My body on the ground but my dreams in deep space In the darkness, my dreams on a cloudy night Mirror and make its very own light - Written 5/29/21