‘Moon’ by Amanda Bell

I am caught off-guard sometimes,
by a shard glimpsed between trees
or behind chimneys. As dawn breaks,
or in the clear blue hue of afternoon,
she watches me. I walk into the road
at night to see her lying low, or crane
from a window in the early hours,
wondering where she’s hiding now.
Elusive, she changes shape, and colour –
the pewter of a beaten lid, gold of ripened quince.
She steals into my room to touch my things,
grows larger, as I approach the horizon.
One day I shall open up the shutters –
be confronted by her pitted face.

From issue #5: autumn/winter 2017

About the Author
Amanda Bell’s haibun collection Undercurrents was published in 2016 by Alba Publishing. Her illustrated children’s book The Lost Library Book was published in May 2017 by the Onslaught Press and her début poetry collection, First the Feathers, was published by Doire Press in November 2017.