FROM THE NIGHTFISHER’S FRIEND

“…I live

trying to catch moonlight with paper

on which I send you this night”

—Dan Gerber from A Last Bridge Home

Like the particles of dust

seen just as the sun shifts

the balance of shadow and light,

I have danced weightless,

graceful and beautiful,

upon the sliver of moonlight

gleaming from where your words

held captive the night you wrote to me.