Stars last week and the moon this: the Summer Solstice is almost here. The earth turns and the moon turns around us, full, half, quarter, and everything in between. It’s the inspiration for love, astrology, and continual mystery, even though the dark side has been seen and people have walked on it …
LUNAR QUESTIONS
shall I ask the moon
to rise morning by morning 
and lend extra light
to our days?
should I command her to sink
under a neap tide
while the cow jumps higher
than we can throw spoons?
would you paint her
weeping for earth
or rising high and full
over Berkeley Square?
we will pluck silver apples
whose shapes and shadows fuse
in the pale flush
of our lunatic sky
an earlier version appeared in Ken*Again
A Summer Father … terse, imagistic lines; … It’s not nostalgia that we experience but quiet, poignant grief. Richard Stevenson
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