From the collection And Don’t Come Back, 2021.
A Query in This Week’s Advice Column
As to the question from the full moon
puzzling over the reason why
the man who stares up into its face
from the front steps of his little yellow house
suddenly says My mind is made up:
Understand that it happened
because you
the full moon
you say
I believe you
before he even asks.
7/31/20
To have the moon believe is a comforting thought.
Since I was very young I have felt that the moon knows me personally (I can remember lying in bed at about age 4 and looking out the window at the moon and feeling this).
I can understand that.
We all need that support. (K)
Yes. We all need someone who believes, right from the start, just because we are who we are, no more needed.
There is something special, magical even, about the moon and our relationship to it. I can imagine that feeling the moon believes in you would be very powerful.