By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo

 

A flood of light illuminates the garden. It is not the full moon as yet, but the intermediate Moon phase between the half moon and the full moon. The moonlight brushes through my skin gently, opening its pores. It teases the buds to open as well, with the cool breeze dancing through spaces between leaves, making a distinct rustle that I normally sense in a forest. It also brings back the calm, the caress of the waves at dawn on my body, in rare moments of communion with the esoteric elements of the sea and the mysterious energies of the vast sky.

My imagination is spawning, ahead of the predicted annual mass spawning of corals that is still to occur in October following the full moon, where multiple species synchronize the release of sperm and eggs over several days. The moon affects the behavior and life cycle of many creatures, and controls the tides in the ocean, and although it was proven by some studies that there is no direct correlation between the phases of the moon and human behavior, it was also established by two studies that during a full moon, the incidence of crime and trauma dropped slightly.

On this day, I am one with the waxing gibbous moon, breathing with the moon, in silent conversation with the moon. One with the distance, reduced to a dot, smaller than a dot, in the universe.

 

Moon breath

It is as if my essence flows

with you, through the moonbeams

as if, it has, for so many distant years

before my knowing, even before

I was conceived under a tree

by the moonlight

 

it is as if I know nothing else

except your presence, so familiar

and close, a breath indistinguishable

from my own, my own

beginning and end

 

sometimes, I bury you

with the clouds that float still

and pray that you get carried away

as they transit to the sea

even as you exhale, and inhale

with the melodies in the air

 

to see me, to see you

cells dividing, healing on our own

before the moonbeams cast their magical light

and gather our emanations to a unity

again, and again

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