"The Moon Takes A Drink"

The crescendoing crescent moon

scratches the night’s heavenic cloak.

It’s phantasmal allure snakes from the sky

into a mystifying drip of stardust. 

From the darkness, its spellbound song flows into 

the open mouth of Earth, 

illuminating beams of life 

like a dew drop swallowed whole by a rose’s petal

 —ethereal and refreshed.