Swoon

Long awaited smiling moon
Through dark nights
I have missed you
Surely my love is gazing
Upon you while wondering
When this phase ends
Before another one pulls
At my heart threads
All the tender places
Ache and burn
Stern hands bring no ease
While night flits lightly
Across her face in golden
Flames licking at window
I feel closer to her
Looking at moon, alone
Singing song from childhood
Words revive from
Somewhere out there

Indolent as the sinking sun

Indolent as the sinking sun
Tucked in beneath the sheets
Of stratus hovering on skin
Up to her lady's chin

Propose a new locution
To discern a lover's toil
Mute and bewildered
By the tragic dimming light

For blazing sensitivity
Could ne'er reduce the spoils
Of cherished forest nymph on lute
Of loss mythologised

Tame the darkest craving
Urge of new moon water signs
Embody all we never spake
Through threads touched by desires
Lake Dobson, Mt Field, lutruwita / Tasmania