The moon hangs from the sky
a cherry red
in howling autumn night,
ground stumbling and blind.
Darkness absolute creeps up
roots from soot and dead,
into bare branches who
reach at vibrence.
With cold, starved fingers
they claw in dispair
while a stunning wind rips
across the tortured woods.
By her absence,
how they long
for that throbbing cherry
red moon in their palms.