alan britt
Well, I know you
33% moon.
I’ve seen you before.
Eyeball
peeking through magnolias’ billowing
pale pink kimono.
You linger in a mythical
Greek forest
between laurels
spanning 12,000 generations.
Yet, why have so many
overlooked you
in favor of the quarter moon,
whom I’ve coveted myself,
or the half moon
in her low-cut, black pearl nightgown,
or the debilitatingly mesmerizing
bare shoulders of the full moon?
33%, you are alive
rustling as a fish
between the magnolias.
And for that I offer you a toast
of Yellow Tail Shiraz!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
alan britt - sipping yellow tail shiraz in early june
alan britt
received his Masters Degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. In July 2007, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (BC Radio International) featured his poem, “After Spending All Day at the National Museum of Art,” as part of their Poets & Painters series. A 2008 and 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominee, he performs poetry workshops for the Maryland State Arts Council and occasionally publishes the international literary journal, Black Moon, from Reisterstown, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, daughter, two Bouviers des Flandres, one Bichon Friese, and two formerly feral cats.
