For herself

Worlds come her way
all day long
for the gift of her attention.

They offer small
gossip and sometimes
holy seals.

But only you are offered
her lunar grace through
these slow nights

and blooming mornings.

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Mark J. Mitchell  has been a working poet for 50 years.  His latest collection is Something To Be. A novel, A Book of Lost Songs was recently published by Histria Books. He’s fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Dante, and his wife, activist Joan Juster. He lives in San Francisco where he points out pretty things.