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Andrew Greig
STATIC MOON, BY BILLOWNESS
STATIC MOON, BY BILLOWNESS
STATIC MOON, BY BILLOWNESS
Certainly I’ve been here beforewhere the moon breaks up like a carrier wave
among rockpools and spume,
but tonight the static
does not irritate,
adding dark commas,
a semi-colon’s pause;
the moon’s ashen
apostrophe of itself:
loss as punctuation, fracture
as rhythmic device
shuffling the constant wind
which rattles the lanyards of your bones,
tempting even
the furled sails of your heart
to rise, be snapping taut,
drum-hard, driving the craft on
to deeps where the moon
is received unbroken, ecstatic.
© 2008, Andrew Greig
Publisher: First Published on PIW,
Publisher: First Published on PIW,
Andrew Greig
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1951)
Andrew Greig was born in Bannockburn, Scotland, and grew up in Anstruther, Fife. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow University Writing Fellow and Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1972, and his first book of poetry, White Boats (with Catherine Lucy Czwerkawska), was published in 1973.
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STATIC MOON, BY BILLOWNESS
Certainly I’ve been here beforewhere the moon breaks up like a carrier wave
among rockpools and spume,
but tonight the static
does not irritate,
adding dark commas,
a semi-colon’s pause;
the moon’s ashen
apostrophe of itself:
loss as punctuation, fracture
as rhythmic device
shuffling the constant wind
which rattles the lanyards of your bones,
tempting even
the furled sails of your heart
to rise, be snapping taut,
drum-hard, driving the craft on
to deeps where the moon
is received unbroken, ecstatic.
STATIC MOON, BY BILLOWNESS
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