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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nby Bruce McRae<\/p>\n
Of course I have no idea
\nwhat it is I’m doing here,
\na little house on Mare Librium,
\nthe icy nights and lack of atmosphere,
\na door that’s always ajar,
\nthe light on the veranda
\nswarming with moon-moths and asteroids,
\nmoondust getting into everything.<\/p>\n
I’d rather be sailing,
\nthough I’ve never been sailing before.
\nI hardly go anywhere
\nthat I’m not invited.
\nFor instance, the Vatican,
\nits secret library and underground passageways
\nthat lead directly to a netherworld
\nthey neither confirm nor deny,
\nthe existence of heaven also in doubt,
\nin the same way some question
\nthe moon landings or fairies in the garden.
\nI mean, who’d be an astronaut,
\ngravity’s dearth and glut a problem,
\nthe cosmos just another god to be denied . . .<\/p>\n
But I digress, a series of digressions,
\nfootprints in ash leading us away from ourselves,
\nLuna City rising up from a crater’s bottom
\nand its suggestive connotations.
\nWhen what I’d wanted to say is
\ncome one, come all, the moon awaits thee,
\nits enticing vistas and stoic panoramas,
\nthough ‘stoic’ may not be the word I’m looking for,
\nperhaps ‘stoney’ or ‘stolid’ instead,
\nmy point being we need the tourist dollars
\nif ever we hope to survive. And hope we must
\nif we are to flourish in the future.<\/p>\n
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review<\/em>. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been performed and broadcast globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}