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PEASANT
MOON
(suggested by Giacomo Leopardi's
Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia)
What
is the moon about? It lifts aloft,
an
unmoored Everest, half-fills the sky,
deficient,
crusted, neutral eye, but fixed
upon
our desert places, ranging over
summits,
ravines and tedious plateaus.
Rock
calls to rock, creasing the space between.
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(For full text see
the Kindle ebook The
Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)
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