Martha McCollough
Moon
the moon smells like a burnt curl of caps / a dry garden
tilled by tiny blows / the grey gunpowder moon frowns
lonely for ocean / your cells / your half-full glass
the full moon hangs beside a streetlight—look, twins!
crescent, she rocks on her back / a boat in the daylit sky
tilled by tiny blows / the grey gunpowder moon frowns
lonely for ocean / your cells / your half-full glass
the full moon hangs beside a streetlight—look, twins!
crescent, she rocks on her back / a boat in the daylit sky
Martha McCollough is the author of Wolf Hat Iron Shoes (Lily Poetry Review Books 2022) and the chapbook Grandmother Mountain (Blue Lyra 2019) . Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Boiler, Bennington Review, Radar Poetry, and Tampa Review, among others. Originally from Detroit, she lives in Amherst, MA.