Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Society…

I wrote this for a sonnet contest on A Prairie Home Companion. I didn’t write it about anything or anyone in my life; it just happened.
I hope you like it (but I hope Garrison Keillor likes it more).
Will you dance with me slowly
on a quiet, grey night?
Our mystery-love growing
in the halogen moonlight
in the absence [...]