As Reflected in Your Eyes

and how does the moon,
with the force of a reflected gaze,
shine brighter than the stars
to behold the day?

clouds like strobe lights
cast dancing, disorienting effects
across the already indeterminate
surface of the bay

the liquid tension carves
up into withering peaks
that rise languidly
like the encompassing hills
but crash chaotically
like the encircling
cults of personality
that careen through our
quotidian days

and how your eyes do
capture all this,
to shine brighter than
the sunlight.