Hinazka Moon

Hinazka Moon was a song cycle composed by Ka-ess Lizardkin in late 219 V.II, during the Fishwives' expedition to the Enchanted Coast of Hinazka. The work comprises a series of tone poems interspersed with verses written by Ka-Ess in the style of the Tabaxi image poem tradition. Composed during one of the most prolific periods of the bard's adventuring career, Hinazka Moon is considered by Ka-ess scholars to be some of his most personal and vulnerable work.

Hinazka Moon: Image Poems

Beneath the scale is
another scale. Beneath the
world -- another world.

The albatross reels.
The sails fill with wind. I too
am a wisp of cloud.

The sea at every
horizon. I could drink it dry
and still thirst.

After the wound, a
scar. After the song, silence.
After you --

What can be sung of
that which endures this world?
Moon. Egg. Tooth. Seed. Stone.

Weep, weep, Hinazka moon -
If every star were your consort
My darling would be yet more beloved.