by Mark Leidner
Poetry
The moon writing a poem about you.
A harpoon in the side of the moon.
A mad moon that hunts other moons.
The moon in the mouth of a roasted boar.
God sketching the moon on a napkin.
A shovel that only works on the moon.
A celestial dolphin overleaping the moon.
A lawyer cross-examining the moon at trial.
A hot air balloon where the balloon is the moon.
A crescent moon resting in a bassinet.
Two moons in the back of a pickup truck.
A moon with wind.
A monsoon on the moon.
A moon you don’t know is behind you.
A superyacht blocking the moon from view.
A moon in the bell of a saxophone.
A therapist hurling the moon at you.
The moon whacked with a cosmic broom.
The moon before the moon was called the moon.
Mark Leidner is the author of three books of poetry: Returning the Sword to the Stone (Fonograf, 2021), Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow, 2011), and The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator, 2011). He also wrote the story collection Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018). Originally from Georgia, he currently lives in California with his family. markleidner.substack.com