choosing light, late

enjoy the full moon

her email read

twas late

but i unarmed the alarm

threw open the bolt

and stepped out

onto cold concrete

barefoot

how is it

i fail to avail myself

of such wonder

(sitting instead behind

the latch)

night after

glorious 

night?

"It was never the right time, or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it." 

                                  ~Ann Patchett (Bel Canto)