Amanda N. Butler is the author of chapbooks Tableau Vivant (dancing girl press, 2015) and effercrescent (dancing girl press, 2017). Her poetry has also appeared in Haikuniverse, NatureWriting, poems2go, and others. She can be found on Twitter @arsamandica and blogging at arsamandica.wordpress.com.
Castle on the Moon
I once stood on a platform
the universe spinning around me
silver slivers
of crescent ascending crescendos
beneath-above-around
vertigoing, vertigone
down the moonstone corridors
pupils are full tonight
gray-black-dots-blue-green-red-fire
back straight
bent knees
wrists inches from the waist
in balcony major.