Looking East

Looking east before sunrise I like to
see the slender crescent moon (sky haiku
so abbreviated it is only
an opening parenthesis, holy
punctuation setting aside last night’s
constellations, planets, and satellites
as mere afterthoughts like the Milky Way,
which justify staying living for today).

The Orchards Poetry Journal , Winter 2024 (7 December 2024), p. 115.
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Notes: This poem tries to embody the scene it describes. The words “cresent moon” are immediately illustrated by an opening parenthesis, “(”, and all the elements of the night sky are contained by the parenthetical remark. Notice the lines are all decasyllabic. Notice also the triple rhyme of “I like to” with “sky haiku”.

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