A Haibun submitted by Jane Dougherty
Water glitters, silver as molten moonlight beneath the trees. I stand, carrying darkness on my shoulders and listen to the waves of wind in the poplars, hissing with the foam memory of the primal sea. Bird voices carry, bloodless and disembodied, on the billows, and all things connect in the rain of sound, pouring into the eternal racing of the river.
Night is an ocean,
crashing on reefs of treetops,
I am drenched in stars.
Photo Credit: Starry Nigth over the Rhone by Vincent van Gogh
Vita Brevis Press. 
I always love Jane’s poetry, and this is exceptional.
Darkly explicit and beautiful.
Reblogged this on The Biblioanthropologist and commented:
Sooo beautiful!
I liked the drenching in stars.
Reblogged this on Jane Dougherty Writes and commented:
Thank you, Vita Brevis for publishing this one.
Thank you!
So gloriously dreamy–to be drenched in stars!
left me speechless
How vivid a ocean of night a drenching in stars. Utterly well done. Memorable.