AUTUMN DAWN
BY KIM BAKER
lingering Moon
jilted lover
flaunts its satellite skirts
pulled up into sexy crescents
flirts with Earth
who can’t commit
prefers to spin
Moon blames its aging craters
lunar moods
as Earth
no longer moonstruck
turns gamma gaga
towards Sun
no matter that Moon can
perigee and apogee when
all Sun can do is
pose
but oh
that fiery magnetism
solar glare
come hither stare
eclipses Earth’s yearning for
the tenderness of gloaming
and so
wilting Moon hovers
hoping her lover
fickle but wistful
might pause this once
quash this starlet infatuation
fall back under the covers
for an ice age
for an hour
Gyroscope Review 16-4
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