Oligarch
I tend to business with old
man’s hands
as full of violence
as a small city
two ices that ought to be moons
in a garden gone bad
Poems on the topic: moon
Poems on the topic “moon” on Poets.by.
Blear
ice like a trap
for the moon
my left eye
troubled with rheum
At the club
a pretty pair of gloves
on the Parliament-man
that was cursing the poor
how they fight till they drop
though their eyes be unlucky
as if they had no bread
the white hearse of a moon
set over a sad house
down into the morning tide
Tenement
knocked up
rising to the window
moon
shine on her lip like
a light supper
Alternate histories
we might have grown
white and thin as rope
over and over the ground
and had other bodies
a secret to be hid
but not under the house
not in the light of
a would-be moon
ships of ice
guns without bullet to grieve
Land escape
going into the country
we land in a maze
the good life is admirable
but for the old and ill
even the half-moon
cannot fit in
grown every day
below in the cellar
Resonance
at night a body begins to ring
I love a cold moon
it being dangerous to walk
on water
Dead town
Fleet with my word, I talk
bodies out of their graves,
which please me better
than sitting in a dark place, not seeing.
We stand and make the moon take to bed.
Commission
Carpenter, make me
a door into my life.
I am a crow, a plain old woman.
I bring none but myself to dinner
by the light of the moon.
Give me a further gallery
in my good ear.
Simón Zopeloxochitl de Texcoco
The hummingbird of day has yielded
to the hummingbird of night.
With a single pair of feathers on his head
he flies on wings of mica
& finds his way with eyes
of yellow quartz.
Unlike his daytime cousin
he doesn’t do battle:
summer nights are short.
Flowers uncurl after sunset just for him.
Pry open the tight
bud of his thorax,
searching out the heart to eat for courage,
& you won’t find
anything that beats:
a maze of dry husks filled with moonlight.
In the country of the rat
I give a groat for a pot
and shit in it,
waiting for the moon.
Oysterous
I took a barrel of oysters
and observed how they cry:
An Indian sold the moon.
Men were hanged for a dog
fouling the bed. All night
I dream that my wife
made me ill.
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