Moonlight by Lisa Zaran
Falls like invention, a bright idea
onto the road, the side of the road,
the lake, his face, your face,
gets tangled in trees, sweeps
over skin, his back, your thighs,
lingers silently, embraces without
a need to change anything,
fills up the night sky with its breath
without contemplation,
sticks out its long tongue
and plunges it into the quivering
water, the pool of his eyes, your eyes
Lisa Zaran is an American poet, essayist, occasional interviewer and the author of six collections. Her first book, the sometimes girl, was recently the focus of a year long translation course in Germany. She is the founder and editor of Contemporary American Voices, an online journal of poetry, which has now been approved to be used as the subject of study for a translation course in Germany.
