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for its own sake

it is only the moon in the palace
bright round implacable
spilling over the bassin
onto the great works of the gallery
and into the bedchamber
a hue of no consequence
sheer illumination



Christopher Mulrooney is the author of symphony (The Moon Publishing & Printing), flotilla (Ood Press), and viceroy (Kind of a Hurricane Press).