Sideways Hearthrob

A true story

The moon was sideways

 

when we drove out

 

Grandma and me

 

sideways and bright and beautiful

 

 

 

as god thrust a yellow

 

noggin

 

gradually up the slope of the world

 

the stellar cast made exits

 

one after the other

 

in order of luminosity into blue

 

as it lightened in hue

 

 

 

leaving for a while

 

canine sirius

 

flaxen lovely venus

 

and old side (read this in any order you like)

 

waysmoon

 

 

 

          began to recall a vivid dream

 

          but first a small lead up replay

 

    i lay awake for hours

 

    ironically made anxious

 

    for my need to fall asleep

 

    as soon as i could

 

    due to my need to wake up

 

    as soon as i could

 

 

 

simultaneously plagued and buffeted

 

by suddenly deep and ornate longings

 

for people

 

of all things

 

some too far now to reach

 

which burdened me

 

some at arm's length

 

which comforted me

 

 

 

  but what the dream was

 

  was I was

 

  walking on the sidewalk

 

  the air was sky brown

 

    and my city

 

         was

 

       cultural

 

 

 

I ran into a girl

 

who did not want to be an ant

 

with short pretty hair

 

who was naked

 

although I cannot remember seeing

 

her womanly nudities at all

 

 

 

but on her chest

 

on her art tattoo canvas chest

 

blue and brown horses

 

and huddled men who were

 

removing all of their flesh to

 

reveal gleaming steel skeletons

 

 

 

  i am now

 

  resplendent in ornament of the skin

 

  the fruits of my own consciousness

 

     so what matter

 

     if with the pass of days

 

     the outlines wrinkle

 

     or the colors fade

 

     so too will eye

 

 

 

this is what I took her to mean

 

as you see

 

our lips moved but our

 

talk was without words

 

 

 

   I want to say that it was before we kissed

 

   (and this long wind rests)

 

   I noticed the moon

 

 

 

   what it was was it was

 

   a two faced woodcut

 

   showing five simultaneous phases (so more faces)

 

   (though five I mean more as a color than as a number.

 

 

 

            but what I figured later was that it was the sun and the moon

 

            which was the why for having two faces

 

            so what it was was it was day and night also. daynight.

 

 

 

               So I turned her to see of it

 

               I am gentle about showing people the sky

 

               Sometimes they are surprised

 

               Because they are so used to just breathing it

 

 

 

But our love was torn up by my

 

alarm

 

at five AM

 

 

 

I am still enamored

 

 

 

So this is what I was reminded of

 

when Grandma and me drove out

 

and the moon was sideways