10 Ways of Seeing The Moon
big biscuit moon
a floodlight over the empty docks
in a morning mist, it keeps hanging
now I see you, now I see don’t
as you drop from the balcony
to a boy with brown hair
wizardry on a chalkboard
a reminder to buy some cheese
the trapeze artist spots a place
to hang her face
in a courtyard a bucket
lies on its side reflecting the moon
as a stoat stops, unseen
one night by a lake
Mary has a vengeful monster to create
and a day selling big issues is punctuated by the moon.
• Barry Tench is a student on the Creative & Life Writing course at Goldsmiths College, London. He has been writing and teaching creative writing in schools and youth centres for 10 years and his work has been published in variety of local and national magazines
