Moon Jar Canto (XII)

] the full moon is two half-moons joined

the old word for such a joint is harmony

harmony joins the two halves of the moon together

and makes the moon whole [  ] there’s a lot of emptiness

inside the moon the moon is made of this emptiness

and it is glazed a blinding white eyeless as the open

eyes of gods when hearing a heart beat

they open their eyes on the animal they hunt [  ] some

times they hunt the moon and sometimes

the moon is the hunter [  ] the moon

has a heart and that heart thinks and pulses

and I who am saying I with you as you say I

am an echo of that pulse or am I a thought

that is the moon’s thought

                                   (  )

life borrows light borrows life

I like the riddle even if I have no choice but to be it [  ] or

so I sometimes think [  ] building so much by hand

building the moon by hand

building by hand my hands and building these thoughts [  ] my

head is feet and hands [  ] the moon has a foot and a lip

and when the harmony limps or lisps

the moon needs a dark crutch to stay full and bright [  ] some

times the moon is a bow drawn back

sometimes it’s the string of the lyre [  ] some

times the moon is a pot filled with smaller moons

rings and earrings and some other singing that has no name

but adorns the emptiness [  ] adores and

adorns the emptiness as it grows inside us [