NIGHT TALES Moonlight soft as downflowers push through a window a manic sight except when the moons shadow turns to gray. Flowers spin until a petal grabs a slice of moonlight. It, too, began spiraling. I shut my eyes. It began to unravel a sweater losing its yarn. Light allows me to seethread’s tail shifts into the atmosphere. The moon and its light explode whirls into the night no boundaries. . I cry and cry you should cry too. The night dream it wasn’t a beginning but the end But in the galaxy, round eyes wait, expectant as they prepare to follow the darkening light with the patience of a vulture