My favorite animal is the moon

It's fast and humble

It eats light and nightmares

So loyal it doesn't grieve

You can throw almost anything and a moon will retrieve it

Insults and mistakes and memories

It can find a kiss by scent

It can detect doubt by sound

I heard about a moon who jumped off the boat to save its drowning lover

Or another, who rescued two children from a burning building

Did you know

that a moon can hold its breath for three generations?

Sometimes that's how long it takes

for a grandfather, a father, and a son

to find the other side of each other

#nationalpoetrymonth, day 6