Shut Up! Poem by Julia Luber

Moon, moon that follows tune. Shadow fortress
telling the planet to shhhh, quiet! My web is spun.
My work is done. The dark surrounds you, and it
surrounds me. Black pool named Night thieving the
whole sky- omnipotent, omniscient. Hiding every lie
in its circular commotion. So ordered, tranquil- constructed
consecrated potion. Seducing even animals into sleep.
Of this I whisper, peep-compulsively do over and over.
The moon, a leafless clover- not to pluck, but to Shut Up!