Original triolet with a paper moon

A small form

Original triolet keeps this poem to eight lines and two rhymes. Line one returns at four and seven; line two returns at eight: ABaAabAB. Tea/sea/me and light/night supply the rhymes here.

Neri, her room and the paper moon are wholly invented. The following scene supplies an original fantasy for a private writing page. It describes no actual drink, paper experiment, craft method or observed night sky. The cup can contain an impossible little sea because the writer has chosen that world, without asking anyone to make or drink it.

Neri’s window

Neri found the moon in the cup after she had put away the last clean plate. It was smaller than the spoon and pale along one edge, with a folded sail that pointed toward the window. She leaned close enough to see a line across its paper. The line looked like the crease of an old letter, though she had written no letter that day.

The cup stood on the wide sill where she usually left a small bowl of buttons. That bowl was now on a shelf, with its buttons still inside it. Neri had moved it earlier to make room for the cup. She could remember the movement clearly. She could not remember placing a moon on the dark surface within the rim.

Outside the window, the roofs had become a single uneven shape against the blue. One chimney remained visible above the rest. Neri looked from that chimney to the folded sail, wondering whether the little thing intended to travel. It had given no sign of departure. Its curved edge rested against the reflection of the window, as though the reflection were a shore.

She set the spoon beside the cup instead of reaching into the imaginary sea. Its handle pointed toward the room. A small patch of light caught along the spoon's bowl, and the metal held that brightness while the rest of the sill grew dim. Neri drew her chair closer to the window, leaving enough room to stand between it and the wall.

The folded sail

The moon turned slowly until its sail faced her. There were no words on the paper. Neri had expected an address, perhaps because she had thought of a letter before she had thought of a boat. She checked the blank curve again and found only the fold. Whatever message she might give it would have to begin with words she chose herself.

Her notebook lay beneath a piece of cloth on the chair. She had covered it while sorting the room and then forgotten why the chair looked occupied. Neri lifted the cloth, folded it over the chair's back and opened the book. A small drawing of a staircase filled the nearest page. She turned past it to a page with nothing written at the top.

The paper moon drifted toward the cup's handle. Neri could see no harbor there, only the same round wall continuing inside the rim. She imagined a quay against it for a moment, with a row of small posts and an empty place between them. Then the moon moved away again. She left the quay out of the page she was beginning.

There was a little roughness at the sail's upper corner. Neri drew that first, giving it a nick rather than a smooth point. The mark made her drawing look less like the moon in the cup until she added its curved body below. She paused with the pencil above the page and looked back at the actual object inside her invented room.

The whole poem

A paper moon floats in my tea.
The spoon lies still beside the light.
Its folded sail points out to sea.
A paper moon floats in my tea.
No harbor keeps a berth for me.
I leave the cup within the night.
A paper moon floats in my tea.
The spoon lies still beside the light.

A little sea

Neri read the page while the cup remained on the sill. The speaker's my belonged inside the poem, where the tea and moon had already found each other. Neri did not have to claim that the author's own cup contained anything extraordinary. The scene could keep its impossible object without turning into an account of a real afternoon in somebody else's kitchen.

She had given the moon a sail, but she had given herself no ship. The little sea stayed inside its cup. A person could look into it from the sill without finding a place to stand on the water. Neri put a hand on the chair's back and remained beside the window, as large as the room had made her at the beginning.

The empty berth she had briefly imagined did not appear. Nor did a harbor master come to ask the moon's name. Neri could have brought both into another story, but this page had not done so. She watched the pale curve pass the cup's handle once more. Its sail made a small angular shape against the darkness near the rim.

Her pencil rolled toward the notebook's central fold. She caught it before it reached the drawn moon, then laid it along the edge of the chair. The cloth slipped a little beneath the book. Neri moved it back without closing the page. Her ordinary paper things could occupy the room beside the impossible cup without becoming passengers on its water.

At the far side of the sill, a button had escaped from the bowl when she moved it. Neri noticed it now, a pale disk against the wood. She picked it up and held it beside the cup for a moment. It was too small to be the moon she had drawn and too ordinary to explain the one she could still see floating.

The still spoon

She carried the button back to the bowl on the shelf. A dark thread lay among the others, caught through two holes of a larger button. Neri left that thread where it was. She had spent part of the afternoon trying to untangle it and had other things she wanted to notice now. Returning the loose disk did not require reopening the whole bowl.

When she came back to the window, the spoon lay exactly where she had set it. The little patch of brightness had shortened along its bowl. Neri looked toward the room's lamp, then toward the window, without deciding to explain every part of the light in her fantasy. She had written the spoon beside it, and that position remained available on the page.

The moon was nearer the middle of the cup again. Its pale surface made no reflection she could distinguish from the thing itself. Neri considered drawing another moon beneath it and then stopped. She had not seen two. Her sketch could retain the single curve with its folded sail while the dark space below stayed largely unmarked.

A corner of the notebook touched the spoon handle when she put the book on the sill. She moved the book toward herself, leaving a clear strip between them. Nothing in the cup changed direction. Neri could arrange the objects she held without making every movement a signal to the little world she had imagined on the water.

She read the complete page once more, then turned back to the staircase drawing she had passed earlier. Its steps led to an empty landing. She had not drawn the door at the top. For a moment she wondered whether the moon might belong there instead. She turned forward again and kept the two pages separate, with neither scene supplying a missing object to the other.

Leave the cup

Neri's room had one narrow drawer beneath the sill. She opened it to find the cloth she usually placed beneath the notebook when she left the window open. Inside were two spare pencils and a paper wrapper she had folded into a square. She took the cloth and closed the drawer. There was no smaller harbor hidden behind its contents.

The window remained closed that evening. Neri spread the cloth on the chair instead and put the notebook above it, keeping the new page open. The poem and the drawing occupied different parts of the same sheet. A pencil mark trailed from the moon's curve into the margin. She rubbed at it with a thumb, saw that it stayed and left it alone.

She could have written a departure for the moon. The sail was already there, and the cup had room for another small turn. Yet no passage in this version sent it through the window or out across the roofs. Neri watched it drift beside the handle again. The whole imagined journey could remain within the boundary she had actually given it.

From the chair, the cup's far edge hid part of the water. Neri leaned forward once to recover the view and then sat back. The moon's sail stayed visible above the pale rim. She could see enough to recognize it without insisting that every part of the little sea remain before her from every position in the room.

She folded the cloth's loose corner underneath the notebook and left the page open. A plain cover would have been enough if she had wanted to put the book away, but she wanted to see the drawing when she returned. Neri went as far as the doorway, looked back at the cup and found the sail still turned toward the window.

Nothing called her back. The paper moon had no voice in this story, and the spoon supplied no signal. Neri returned because she wanted to move her pencil off the chair before she forgot it there. She laid it beside the notebook with its point away from the open page, then stood again in the space she had left beside the wall.

The last view kept the cup on the sill, the spoon nearby and the pale folded shape inside its impossible sea. Neri could leave the room without announcing where the moon would be in the morning. Her notebook held the page she had chosen. The other drawings, the loose thread and the drawer's folded wrapper could wait for their own small scenes.

The paper moon and teacup belong to an invented scene.

Actual lamps

The Possini KS633M1 Kenya table lamp account names a complete lamp and excludes the bulb. Its sole image shows a tall narrow neck, raised petal-shaped base, square riser and shade. The riser and shade are structural components, not separate storage goods. No maker, material, measured dimensions, bulb fit or electrical performance is authenticated here.

The Possini KS714W4 table lamps account describes a pair and excludes bulbs. Its sole gallery shows two short, broad, horizontally ridged bases with shades. The books, bowl, plant and furniture are staging, not established supplied goods. Neither actual account identifies Neri's fictional lamp or supplies the paper moon. No lighting or operating result is adopted.

Other poems

The actual short-poem refrain guide compares an unchanged returning sentence with alternate final statements across freeform stanzas. This page does not compare alternate final statements.

The actual fictional-person clerihew guide gives Nell Lark a comic portrait in two rhyming couplets. Neri's paper moon is not Nell, and no invented biography is supplied.

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