------The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull, contracted circle, yielding light
So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
Chequering the ground--from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
Startles the pensive traveller while he treads
His lonesome path, with unobserving eye
Bent earthwards; he looks up--the clouds are split
Asunder,--and above his head he sees
The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens.
There, in a black-blue vault she sails along,
Followed by multitudes of stars, that, small
And sharp, and bright, along the dark abyss
Drive as she drives: how fast they wheel away,
Yet vanish not!--the wind is in the tree,
But they are silent;--still they roll along
Immeasurably distant; and the vault,
Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds,
Still deepens its unfathomable depth.
At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into peaceful calm,
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.

~ William Wordsworth
"A Night-Piece"

As I wrote on the page: "Although I don't typically enjoy free verse, the fluidity of [Wordsworth's] language captured me and drew me through the poem like a vision, and I knew that I had to do something with it."  William Wordsworth has long been one of my favorite poets, and I love his imagery of nature.  Once again, I admit to sort of a cop-out when it comes to the theme.  I couldn't think of twin elements in the poem, but somehow I felt using it as a layout idea for anything other than the domain wouldn't work, so I decided that the moon and the stars he describes would have to be it.

In the layout, the photograph shows a moon breaking through the clouds, but the stars are too faint to be seen; instead they litter the background.  The moon and the stars share the same sky, but the moon is brighter, even though it's only returning light it receives, while the stars are creating their own.  (Maybe finishing the Card Captor Sakura manga inspired that part a bit.  *cough*)  The stars cycle in a year, the moon in a month.

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