June 2025 Editor's Choice: "A Liquid Moon"

a liquid moon

ascended in a miasma of mist

swathed in strands of violet and sorrow

as the midnight spectres

gathered at the edge of the scape

amid the encroaching ebon of evenfall

bare boughs

denuded by a persistent breeze

stretched their skeletal limbs

across the scope

myriad heavenly blandishments to garner

a lone spider was employed weaving

twist and tween branches

a web

that caught droplets a million of moisture

by the brume bestowed

and glistened in the coruscating light

creating a silver thread in finest filigree

redolent of the treasures

by the atelier of a master silversmith crafted.

© D. A. SIMPSON

UK