Eagle Nest Moon ~ ekphrastic poem

Eagle Nest Moon

The same moon passed
through here just an hour ago,
as always setting earlier
than predicted with our horizon’s
meager attempt to emulate
the Ozarks to our south
with hills and ridges that do
nothing more than bring
an early moonset and late sunrise.

But even those were obscured
this morning by clouds
as commonplace
as our hills and ridges,
the meeting place of
northern and southern fronts
and no clear mountain air.
So, thank you for sharing your
New Mexico morning moon.


Photo by Mary Berglund, Eagle Nest, NM
Moon setting over Wheeler Peak

Shared with Day Six at napowrimo.net (off prompt)

10 thoughts on “Eagle Nest Moon ~ ekphrastic poem

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s