Moon Madness

‘Danse de Lune’

When you dance

you summon strange gods

to your fingertips,

who speak in tongues

from the dew of a wild moon.

Forget what you think you know.

Feel, only—

the drumbeat that calls your rapturous heart

and the whispered melodies

of moon madness

running in your veins.

Art by Aleksander Rzewuski, “Moon Madness,” c. 1922.