Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Jackie Chou

Looking Out the Window 


I shall spare you the corny stuff 

about you and me gazing 

at the same moon 


Perhaps you have already

drawn the curtains

and shut out the circus

of the night sky


The moon

the stars 

the helicopters

impersonating 

celestial bodies 

with flashing lights


Maybe you have forgotten 

the lunar maiden

like an exiled lover


She grows weary 

of her high palace 

her platinum gown 

 

The tinny music 

announcing 

her entrance 

for billions of years


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