".... It is the very error of the moon,
"That comes more near the earth than she was wont,
"And makes men mad ...."
- Wm Shakespeare
a dazzling
intrusive moon
conceals
in black
fantastic shadows
dark errant
living secrets
which
a darker night
of starlight
finds revealed
quietly and undistorted
to the patient eye
of one
who neither harries
nor invades
and quite
unphased
by shame
22nd December 1991