MOON POEM

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Dining Room 7:28pm

The Moon rose at supper

like a humanoid zygote

passing first through a layer of peach —

as the peach got pinker and pinker

The Moon got higher and higher —

Its fullness minus a day

glowed Its luminous face

to the solid bank of ocean

and to The Earthlings at Their Window