Moon over you.

Now showing in the Philippine night sky: A smiling face formed by the rare alignment of planets Venus and Jupiter and directly below it, the crescent moon. -- From the Inquirer, 03/12/08


Look at that waning moon
Smiling in her demise
Stars in her eyes
The little loon.

Has she always been
A woman, that lunatic?
Is that look automatic--
Eyes too bright and not too keen?

Faced with a great smile
Or a shiny bauble
Her brain starts to wobble,
Then collapses. Without guile

Then, without a single thought?
Tomorrow with the sun
The face is barren and dun
And with many disasters, pocked.

Then again the sun is always he
who tells the tale, and never she.