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Moon in Lovers ’ Eyes
from Mirage 2016
49 MOON IN LOVERS’ EYES Lavendra Copen
That pocked, abiding rock shifts ceaselessly in transit. No less so its servant images. Across the eyes ’ desiccating globes each blink swells saline seas. The lunar light remakes itself a dozen times a minute in those salty surfaces, assembling metaphors whose stony source deludes our vision. It’ s the speed of light that tricks. For those of us who tumble willingly into such enchantment’ s arms, it’ s the speed of love, the parallax inscribed like cords between the eye and heart.
