MOONSET AT SUNRISE

When the moon stays up all night 

to welcome the sun and changes 

into the colors of the dawn . . .

it can be somewhat disorienting,

I know.

But as long as you keep 

your sense of direction 

while looking out for newly hatched

green tortoises

or loggerheads,

You’ll be okay.

And anyway, if you have 

been faithful to your dream-

State and basically 

Sleepwalked

out your apartment door,

down the hallway filled with 

musky mold and spores,

Out the heavy exit door using

the panic bar,

Across the saw blade grass

heavy laden with dew that

is really thick ocean fog . . .

Being careful to look both ways 

Two lanes each side of A-1-A, 

then across the crunchy with

many mini broken shells, 

Mostly white.

Up a few steps to the top deck 

of the overlook 

of the dune crosser.

Pausing for a few minutes 

to make sure the moon

is faithfully lingering above 

The Western horizon over the 

Banana River and

the Indian River and 

the East Northern Central

Florida mainland.

Swampy.

Sandy.

Rife with alligators, 

Crocodiles,

water moccasins, 

some cougars.

Lots and lots of birds.

Frogs, 

other snakes

more mosquitos than you can imagine

Dung beetles,

Raccoons,

tarantulas, 

parakeets

eagles,

pelicans,

sandpipers, terns, 

peacocks.

Glassy little snakes that live in the rivers and 

curl up around the childrens’ wrists;

foxes,

wolves . . .

I know I am leaving a lot out, but that

is what the Brevard County Zoological Park

and the natural history museum,

Busch Gardens and Walt Disney World,

Sea World, (but not Dino World)

are all about.

But be sure and look east from the 

Top of the overlook while 

the Eastern Horizon is still

pinkish orange if you’re

lucky with only the prettiest 

Dawn-enhancing clouds.

And please do stay up there so

you can keep close tabs on the setting 

moon,

As the rising sun gently pulls itself up

out of the big Atlantic drink 

And for a while the path in the breach 

between you and the horizon is

About seventeen miles away

with a bright shining golden path.

Even though my body can’t, 

i encourage my soul to walk on 

straight east over the path.

The view is worth it.

— Kathleen Ware Harris, October 22, 2017

http://deeppeaceofchristtoyou.blogspot.com/2017/10/moonset-at-sunrise.html