//------------------------------// // Poem for Luna // Story: Poems for Luna // by alafoel //------------------------------// I lay, scrunched in our palace, tears running down not in overwhelm but absence. Of the perfect words flowing from taut maw, of singing lullaby  to sleep. I was there once, when it was simple. The string hum harp of tongue and teeth of whispers in twitchy ear to console. There are many twitchy ears to console.  Absence makes the Oh! Oh, but dash it! Screw it! Smash it against the wall! and in our palace, in the absence of dream, in the overwhelm of Salt and Fear of twitching hoof and twitchy ear… There are no whispers. And I have to go back on.