<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <title>The Moon is drowning | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css"> <script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> </head> <body id="moon-drowning" class="stark"> <article class="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">The Moon is drowning</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content verse"> <p><span class="line"><a href="moongone.html">The moon is drowning</a> the stars it pushes them</span><span class="line">under into the darkness they cannot breathe</span><span class="line">they are flailing the moon boasts to my shadow</span><span class="line">how powerful is the moon how great its light</span></p> <p><span class="line">My shadow nods and calls the moon father though</span><span class="line">it acknowledges also the existence of others</span><span class="line">headlights are like little moons father my shadow says</span><span class="line">they pass like waves in a dark ocean</span></p> <p><span class="line">Father moon becomes angry and threatens</span><span class="line">I can maroon you shadow I can trap you in darkness</span><span class="line">your strength comes from my own the little moons</span><span class="line">are fleeting like foam on a darkened sea</span></p> <p><span class="line">My shadow fears the night as it fears death</span><span class="line">but it remembers the moon’s strength is from another</span><span class="line">my shadow wants the headlights like an ocean</span><span class="line">might want the moon as a seducer as a lover</span></p> </section> </article> <a id="textlink" title="Source file" href="text/moon-drowning.txt">¶</a> <nav> <div class="anchors"> <a href="backlinks/moon-drowning.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> φ </a> <a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">◊</a> <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> </div> <a class="prevlink" href="poetry-time.html" title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> Something about the nature of poetry and time </a> <a class="prevlink" href="big-dipper.html" title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> The Big Dipper </a> <a class="nextlink" href="music-433.html" title="Next article in Stark Raving"> Something about all music being performances of <em>4′33″</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing </a> <a class="nextlink" href="worse-looking-over.html" title="Next article in Stark Raving"> Worse looking over </a> </nav> </body> </html>