Moon Prayer

Written and Illustrated by Bennett Lacerte B’27

I will drive the long way home for you, watch you hang bare over the bay.

I will stretch nude by the jacuzzi, bathing in your purest light and remembering 

the warmth my body was made to feel.

I will watch planes pass over your shadows, flashing red-green as my heartbeat crescendos. 

I will stare at you, squint at you through one eye and many mirrors, scrutinize your body and cherish what beauty each crevice and crater holds.

Moon, dear, pull me to sleep like you do the waves.

Shape me from soft clay and breathe fire into my churning core. 

Spin me anew and douse me in a basin of blue hot water.

Steep me for too long in this California dream, 

then let me dissolve in your shifting tides and white sheets

until I am no more than your dust.