Night

Night comes in uniform

___with polished silver buttons,

seeking twilight.

.

Picks it up with dusky fingers,

hides it in his breast-pocket,

.

and takes out the moon.

Flips it.

.

Heads.

.

And the man in the moon reigns, a king --

.

_____his image encased in

___a coin lost on

the silken sidewalks of the night sky.