Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Lunar landscape

For some musings about the moon (mostly mooning over some beautiful photographs Andrew took of the moon over Kinderhook Lake very late one recent evening), see my blogpost at blog.amynelsonhahn.info. There is also a link to a great song, "You Cage," by the Throwing Muses. Here's today's poem:

Old Moon

Who else knows you're there,
like a hubcap
like a kneecap
like a nightcap
swirling circles incessant
indiscriminate, overwhelming?
And I can't abide
your chiding eye --
my heel cracks down
on the dull kitchen floor,
heel toe heel toe --
it seems to thunder down below
yet no one wakes or disturbs.
Overwhelming still and though
only you and I can hear it
we are nothing now,
wilted fragments
of our former selves,
sieved through clouds,
debilitated by increasing day.

Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn

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