The Thirty-Fourth Day

Dichotomy of moon
Half disc illumed
Speaks day into day
Time into time

The light and dark of it
Present absent
Breaks life into parts
Of a puzzle

On the shadow pieces
A time to die
A time to pluck up
A time to weep

On the illumined ones
A time for birth
A time for planting
A time to laugh

Intersection of two
Disparate shares
Of one persons life
A line between

One day tells its tale to another