Pink Moon Passing Over

The solar and lunar years don’t match--
Not because we are in an imperfect world,
Although perhaps its imperfections all have

The same reason, the fact that patterns,
Even the most cyclical, periodic, rhythmic
Avatars of near perfection we use to create

And measure inevitably local time, change
And are always changing, in relation to past
Patterns and to the patterns of each other

And so our mostly quiet sun and smoothly
Spinning planet, our oversized but stable
Single moon, pass in and out of alignment,

And if one year ever was or will be perfect
The next will slip and in slipping make
The next, always the past we have that’s next,

The next we have that’s past. The wobble
Between lunar month and solar year is not
A flaw. It is a clue to how all is always new.