Poem: A Midsummer Night's Glee

This is a fun poem, something I don't do too often. It originally appeared in The Centrifugal Eye, You can read it in situ here:

http://issuu.com/centrifugaleye/docs/tcefeb10-troblems

I recommend reading the poem at TCE. The journal is a stunningly sensuous blend of color, art, calligraphy and poem.
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A Midsummer Night’s Glee

whippoorwills
commence to prate
on topics illustrated by bats
and sphinx moths;
and a clown-like moon
slants in fallen breeches.

lightning bugs court
whirligig silver
kicked up by beetles
on lunatic water;
and frogs burp
as if they had swallowed
Pan’s thyrsus.

coyotes dirge
like a barbers’ octet,
an owl spins its weird crick,
and spiders jig
their crazy legs
like trampolinists.

a goose speeds over like
what the f---
a meteor hurtles
as if Orion had spit,
and the stars decidedly
take their wish
and sleep on a cirrus.