Michael Keshigian - The Ghost Moon / The Closet Door

The Ghost Moon

Through the congested

clouds it creeps,

its vague, cratered tonnage,

amid the dust, glides hauntingly 

through the mystery about,

its path worn thin,

reflecting the ambitions

above which it hovers

that are slowly invading

those dark recesses once hidden,

barely illuminated by starlight.

Its ghostly image 

meanders in and out of sight,

passing through night

like a dream

of continuous divergence

though its warning 

and pleas can never be discerned

for under the black sky

it has been decreed

to navigate in exile, 

growing more blanch

with every revolution

as we stare, 

sometimes in melancholy

sometimes in wonder,

knowing no person

will cast themselves asunder

as savior.

The Closet Door

He is a writer with a message

buried within,

and an inability to express

except when he falls asleep

and the doors

to his closet of secrets

cracks ajar

and into his head

flood the words

that paint pictures,

chaotic representations

of fortunes or ills

stained upon his minds eye

in blinding hues,

the flailing fists

of darkness and light,

death and life,

bashing his sensibilities,

where, in this sleepy stupor,

he raises his arms for defense,

the images in his head,

splay his angst about the bed,

around the room.

There is no revelation,

the ending is never a surprise,

merely a conglomerate 

of indescribable visions

he remembers upon awakening

when he sits up and stares

as the pictures vanish 

and the words retreat,

everything that had happened,

frightening as it might have been,

turns to nothing.

Michael Keshigian’s ninth poetry book, Dark Edges was released September, 2014 by Flutter Press.  He has been widely published in numerous national and international journals most recently including Poesy, The Chiron Review, California Quarterly, Poppy Road Review and has appeared as feature writer in over a dozen publications with 5 Pushcart Prize and 2 Best Of The Net nominations. (michaelkeshigian.com)