A Year Later

the light of your eyes
in the sky reprise

when I looked at the moon
in the frozen still air
feeling the lungs compressed
against the gentle shock
I fell into the moment
grasping points of stars
captured in the halo

when I remember love
it never hits me
in the past tense

it swells back in quiet moments
when the sky is rich
with an indefatigable reverie
of the meta-narrative
we have built ourselves within

a year ago I fell alive into a deep well
filled with the primordial swirls
of where things come from

I was alluvial
dredged on the rich sediment
feeling warmed by life yet lived
in utero thick fluid flowing
black back-lit light

the moon's radiation on the surface
penetrated down to the bubbling sinter

two glowing eyes like Saturn's rings
eclipsed the moment and receded

in the last light of your eyes
an endless celestial reprise