The moon is a good friend
on these sleepless nights.

She tells me stories
and mocks the stars

__________(she knows what makes
__________me laugh).

She says that we are
from the same light,

that we exist together,
that all of light is a reflection,

and that we all reflect light.

Jack Galati is a writer living in Arizona. His fiction and poetry has appeared in a number of journals and magazines including Fauxmoir, Pinky Thinker Press, and Beaver Magazine.