Inspired by someone

The purity of the moonlight,

Falling out of the immense sky,

Is so great that it freezes

The water touched by its rays.

Anonymous

Trans. Rexroth

In its imagined paraphernalia, chrysalis love,

Bound alone in its icy cavern, thought, forms, water to

Crystal, to freeze there now, suspended heavy as lead,

Folded into space, an echo of everywhen, a portrait:

You some other when, some other place, eluding me then