Moon in Stereo

#NaPoWriMo, Day 1

Night launch (Apollo 17)

Timocharis Crater

Morning Moon

Morning Moon:
a phantom hiding
in the clouds.

“Behold the great rondure…”

“Behold the great rondure, the cohesion of all, how perfect!”

from Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd”

Bay of Rainbows

There’s so much to see,
but my eye keeps catching on
the one bright rainbow.

some day we will walk there, too

Believe me, ladies
some day we will walk there, too:
it’s not if but when.

Numinous

A patch of the Moon
flanked by shadows: trembling sense
we shouldn’t be here.

Crescent Home

You’ve only been away a week

and yet you stare
at the terminator
on your crescent home

and a shadow falls
over a place
you know.

Alone

The lighthouse keeper
watching the shoals for tall ships
so slow in coming.