"Stepping swiftly down"

[Ex Tempore XIX]

Stepping swiftly down the silvered stair
came the Lady of the Moon with starry hair,
driving down like the onset of dream
into the world and a dissolving scene.

Winding like water every which way,
coursing to the Man wound in her rays;
a train of truth trailed her as a comet's tail
as she alighted on the earth, tender and pale.

The Man, mute and meek, motioned to meet her,
to greet her, his heart now moved by a thunder.
He saw her as the star he had once sought,
and entranced by this star he was soon caught.

Caught by the thunder, in her rays,
in the scene, and lost in the stars in her hair;
such that he soon ascended the stair with her
and the tail dissolved forever, as a dream.

M.M. — Maius MMXII