The Pale Autumn Moon
How can I love her?
Let me count the ways.
The heat of her glare affects me as if I were an ejected baby bat left exposed on a hot sidewalk.
She is much shorter than a refrigerator,
But more massive.
Her laugh is the final word of a steel door
Being slammed rapidly.
Her face is
Like the pale Autumn moon,
Occluded by a storm cloud,
Wearing perpetually, hyper-vigilantly
The same expression,
A studied I-dare-you belligerence.
She is identifiably human.
How can I love her?
Help me find a way.