effercrescent | Amanda N. Butler

  Amanda N. Butler is the author of chapbooks Tableau Vivant (dancing girl press, 2015) and effercrescent (dancing girl press, 2017). Her poetry has also appeared in Haikuniverse, NatureWriting, poems2go, and others. She can be found on Twitter @arsamandica and blogging at arsamandica.wordpress.com.     Castle on the MoonI once stood on a platformthe universe spinning around mesilver sliversof crescent ascending crescendosbeneath-above-aroundvertigoing, vertigonedown the moonstone corridorspupils are full tonightgray-black-dots-blue-green-red-fireback straightbent kneeswrists inches from the waistin balcony major.