The moonlight was sprinkling
Icing sugar on the tops of
the pine trees and edges of cedar boughs
All along the lakeshore
Shadows cascading below
And stretching from the far shore
As the nearly full moon untethered
Floated into view breaking free
From the tangled tree line
And from somewhere across the lake
Was that a wolf howl a cougar’s scream
deep within but close to chill
Carried by a soft breeze stirring
The waters into a vast bowl of glitter
Ripples shimmering, dancing
as we sat on the dock
In the deepening dark
The reflected light of an unseen sun
Softly touching our friendship
A beautiful moment
In a shared uncertainty
Almost too fragile to be real
And yet without question true.