Imagine the Moon

(from the Moon Series)

when you look up in the sky and it's not there.
Every bathroom has a mirror
except this one. You wash your hands
with soap, you look up from the sink to black
brick wall and shift in your stomach
as the vacancy swallows your features.

You've lost the moon for good
and what makes you so sure the next time
you look up into the black void
that giant sandy eye will hover
and glare and reflect and give you
the comfort that is the burden
on the search of every human vessel?