Full Moon

Lyrics

A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket - And you listening A spider's web, tense for the dew's touch A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror To tempt a first star to a tremor Cows are going home in the lane there, looping the hedges with their warm Wreaths of breath - A dark river of blood, many boulders Balancing unspilled milk 'Moon!' you cry suddenly, 'Moon! Moon!' The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work That points at him amazed