MOONSTRUCK! and a New Moon Poem

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Catherine at Reading to the Core for Roundup.

I've got the moon on my mind -- thanks, in part, to the anthology MOONSTRUCK! Poems About our Moon edited by Roger Stevens, illustrated by Ed Boxall. Lots of gems in this book, and proof of poets' continued fascination with the moon. (A couple of my faves upon this latest reading: "Three Short Poems" by Tony Mitton and "You" by Jay Hulme. Do check this book out!)
I mean, who among you has NOT written a poem about and/or including the moon? Which is what makes it so difficult, as Karla Kuskin so brilliantly addresses in her poem "Write About A Radish," which begins with this stanza:

"Write about a radish
Too many people write about the
 moon."

So of course I decided to write a new moon poem. :) Enjoy!

photo by flikr from london, UK - flikr0114, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
If the Moon Were an Onion
then stars could only bethe sun's teardropsas she halves, slices,slivers –preparing our nightfeast.

- Irene Latham