Santa Fe Poetry Broadside: Judyth Hill, Cliff Notes on Moonlight

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Judyth Hill

Cliff Notes On Moonlight

The Sprouting Grass moon writes in Esperanto
that whatever we love can go free.
Mountains skip off, unmoored,
Oceans crescendo, mimicking musical epiphany,
as if they had heard Beethoven's side of the story.

Actually, also, the Sonata itself plays somewhere
in a darkened room.
Minor notes, adagio, circling a white plaster Guadalupe
lit by one votive. What else?

Prayer opens the dissonant bud,
Humming bees of desire,
yearning for the outbreath of beauty.

Stung by so much wanting
the Mare Nubium refills
a cup for the light pouring endlessly
from elsewhere.

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