Buffoonery (Gray Moon Revisited)

A ton of crumbling cut bundles of sun
sweetened even the breezy sea
while I sat by the tide with a ripe lime so nice.

But he, in the heavens, kept wrestling,
(whilst I sipped at the rim of citrus twist)
on a cosmic thought that he was fond of fondling.

Soon that fruit took me for a loop, avoiding the ruin
that might try, from the sky,
to twist the bliss of the willow into a list of quills.

Some fat cat up on a slat cracked up and laughed
and I smirked: one, with mirth at such silly quirks
and, two, at that tame gray moon, poor old buffoon.

by Blake Edwards, November 2, 2007

Note: The original feature, "The Gray Moon," is just one whimsical click away.
(Readers of The Poetic may enjoy knowing that Blake's "gray moon" series inspired the choice of the art piece "Poeta en el Limbo" as our trademark icon. Do you see the connection?)