Finding Equilibrium \ Deficient Moon

Nancy: There are days when I would – if I could – spread my wings and float, ride the variable winds on fixed wings.

Finding Equilibrium

the crow

         chooses

the highest, most slender

branch

every morning

         crow

– from this lectern –

gives a teaching

folds his black robes

         leaves

leaves me in thought

today

let it be my practice

to seek

to choose

         as crow

to find equilibrium

Alan: I’ll watch the moon tonight waxing from crescent; soon enough it will reach full and decline.  Crazy to try to hold it, like trying to hold time itself.

Deficient Moon

Surprised

to see the moon half-vanished –

where did the days go? –

one thin cloud

in an otherwise empty sky

pulling away from it’s whiteness

cotton from a boll

seeds from milkweed

in the wind

Just like the moon

to wander away when it’s most

needed

Just like us

to want it –

to always want it whole.