Moon Laughing East Like A Wine Soaked Poet Poem by Charles Eastland

MOON LAUGHING EAST LIKE A WINE SOAKED POET

(9/12/05 - writing hideaway at Somes Sound Mt. Desert Island)

My black dog pal warms these bare ankles
the jug has spilled red wine on the deck
overhead stars sketch symbols in an ancient sky
sprinkling stardust on Somes Sound's tide ritual

and I in fertile solitude also practice the life flight

with bare knuckled phrases of modern mind's eye

taming rage by clawing out words that must change

by alchemy of this heart lit joyous by torch of love


through what strange portal did I awake and find me

here in this body playing in a wild life's time seeking

soft skin music for a monument equal to my lust

beneath this wild moon laughing east
like a wine soaked poet

(dedicated to my black German Shepard - 'Imus')


from the 2017 book,
'The Car Has Ears: Selected Poems, by Charles Eastland
Kindle eBook publishing date - January,21,2017 - Entity Enterprises