Yencheng, Honan, China
On Sunday evening as darkness crept in
the people rushed out
with gongs
-----& pots
----------& anything to make noise
to scare the heavenly dog
that slowly
-----very slowly
----------ever so slowly
had placed its jaws about the moon
They persisted in their din --it was said
so the moon would not be swallowed
& leave them in the dark --forever
(This poem first appeared in Windsor Review)
On Sunday evening as darkness crept in
the people rushed out
with gongs
-----& pots
----------& anything to make noise
to scare the heavenly dog
that slowly
-----very slowly
----------ever so slowly
had placed its jaws about the moon
They persisted in their din --it was said
so the moon would not be swallowed
& leave them in the dark --forever
(This poem first appeared in Windsor Review)
