Moonlight’s Magic
written by: Christine E. Ray
@Christabelle666
It is only in sleep
That she is fully visible
Able to be deciphered
In her unbuttoned
Unzipped state
His eyes are open
Moon’s captured light
Slanting across the expanse
Of tousled sheets
Softly reveals
Tender curve of her cheek
Her unclasped hand, childlike
Fingers brushing his shoulder
Her heart in the gentle rise
And fall of her night breath
Curves and edges
Defined by the play of
Moonlight and shadow
He cannot describe
What he feels
In this nocturnal moment
Studying her undisturbed
No words to describe the sight
Of her open, vulnerable
Beside him
Before the marauding daylight returns
Leaves its mark
Christine E. Ray lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A former Managing Editor of Sudden Denouement Publications, she founded Indie Blu(e) Publishing with Kindra M. Austin in September 2018. Ray is the author of the award-winning Composition of a Woman and The Myths of Girlhood. Her writing is also featured in SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women an Anthology, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art, Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, Swear to Me, and All the Lonely People. Read more of her work at Brave & Reckless.
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