Pamela Silin-Palmer
Decorative Artist, Illustrator and Fine Artist
The Love Poems
of Honniker Winkley


Man Missing His Moon

"With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky,
How silently, and with how wan a face!"
Where art thou?

--Wm. Wordsworth

Man, missing his moon,
Devours ovoid egg
Wanders elliptical evening
With washed and careless feet --
While glaring from a forest darkness
The small squint pigeye:

Two minds travel space
On different winds --

One,
Distracted
Missing moon
Cleanfooted
On the occasional acorn,

The other, unseen
Darts, ducks
Blows, sucks
Snorting piggly wrath;

The pigcharge:
Man bitten in the oaksprouts
Raises first torn foot then razor
Slits the pink and bristled throat.

Moon appears
Mid joyous solitary singing--
While egg and parslied pigmeat
Roast
In honor of the moon.

Moon shines like and egg,
Endlessly Ovoid.

On to Ipso Facto Burp

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