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              Eclipse by Sdonja Salley

The city sleeps
  as
  naked animals
  roam the streets

Circling the radius
 of the rings around the moon
 in an ancient ceremony

 Forgotten by history

Their shepherd appeared
  when their enemy the sun
  was about to rise.
  They followed the moon,
  feeling safe within the radius
  of its rings, protected from the sun.

Through rings of smoke
  I saw their nakedness
  Parading through the streets tonight
  No pictures,
  only memories
  as they danced away with the moon
  into the night...