Embalming the Moon

With clarion eyes
and a look
that could stop the world from spinning

she held the axis in neutral
and set admiration
into overdrive—

Imagine
such brightness entombed.

Her enameled smile

a living skylight
to an eventual
sarcophagus of bones

could not have hinted
at the body
that simply fell away.

The tides of a heart
once arterial and veined

now recede infinitely
into an unrelenting darkness.

Sorrow blinds a farewell
in almost unbearable radiance

and yet that face that will soon coalesce
into a softer light

which rises on a renewed horizon
and shines serene.

Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio. He is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry Web Site
He is also co-author of JOMA—online, an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis Joma
His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Icon, Oregon Literary Review, AdmitTwo, Eleventh Transmission, Right Hand Pointing, The Cerebral Catalyst, Clockwise Cat, Neon Literary Magazine, Zygote in my Coffee, Otoliths and Subtle Tea.

Email: Joe Balaz

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