A dark, summer night melts the icy moon
With undying, undiscovered memories
From within the heart’s furnace.
Tomorrow’s eternal wick
Glows, golden, beyond reach:
Pinching fingers
Try their hand at cheating.
Phantasmal fantasy
Flicks dandruff shrugs
Off stooped shoulders -
Another galaxy rejoices.
The unbinding grasp
Releases somnolent caterwauling
From the screeching scratch
Of a desolate desert.