What Lies Beyond, by Lisa Sita

Moonlight, Strandgade 30, by Vilhelm Hammershøi (Denmark) 1900-06

What Lies Beyond

A captured moon
paints pearls on walls,
echoes purple in this silent room.
A glow bewitched
upon a shadowed floor
summons wearied sleepers
to trap doors in shapes of panes,
hatches sending unawares
the walkers of empty spaces
into mysterious woods
to sip the froth of fairytales
before the sun gallops in
with sweeping hands
to burn the mists of sleep.
What lies beyond that phantom door
in moonlit groves of elves and trolls
in the ever-deepening night?
Does the dreamer dare, or wait in fear
For the infiltrating light?

Lisa Sita

Lisa Sita is a New York-based writer and educator whose work has appeared in War, Literature and the Arts, The Fictional Cafe, Literary Veganism, and in anthologies published by Editions Bibliotekos. She has also authored several books for young readers on various topics in anthropology and history. Lisa holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University and an MA in Anthropology from The New School. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in anthropology at Queensborough Community College.