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 all’s looking out for newly hatched

green turtle

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.

Pausinf for a few minutes

to make sure the moon

is faithfully lingering above

The Western horizon over the B

Banana River and

the Indian River and

the East Northern Central

Florida manland

Swampy

Sandy

Rife with alligators

crocidiles

water moccasins

some cougars

Lots and lots of birds

Frogs,

other snakes

more mosquitos than you can imagine

Dung beetles,

tarantilas,

parakeets

eagles

pelicans

sandpipers, terns,

peacocks

glassy 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 your

lucky with only the prettiest

Dawn-enhancing clouds.

And please do stay up there so

yiu 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 lines the breach

between you and the horizon

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