Mikaela Castledine #122 If You Narrow Your Eyes

The low bank of cloud to the west

is a fools landscape

double dark against the dark of the sea

halfway distant

ships turn on the house lights

like little candles in little windows

beckoning you on to visit

nonexistent villages in imaginary vales

it's a convincing illusion

if you narrow your eyes

Above the rampart

of a mountainous effigy

the sky is lemony pale

with temporary stars