No Moon at All: Writing Prompt

Jackie Kay's incredible poem, "Margaret's Moon," mentions the moon just once in her short poem (line four: "a hammock moon"). Most of her poem is focused on Margaret, the speaker, and moon-adjacent description.

I love this, as everything else in the poem has the moon, unmentioned, in it, particularly the last line. Our imaginations have already engaged the moon from the title and that brief mention, and there it sits, high above us but there, as we continue to read.

This week's poem is going ...