hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
cut-price moon
five dollars label-gunned on
the dark side
----- Alan Peat
(Trash Panda, Winter 2021)
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hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
cut-price moon
five dollars label-gunned on
the dark side
----- Alan Peat
(Trash Panda, Winter 2021)
I was asked on Facebook if I might add my own comments about my poem. So, here goes… I wrote this poem during one of the covid lockdowns. Many shops in the U.K. were closing down. I was looking in a bookshop window and spotted an Atlas of the Moon which had been reduced in price for the closing down sale. That really was the inception of the poem but, as is often the case, there was a second experience that led to the poem being written. I was flicking through a haiku journal and there were moons and fireflies on almost every page. I have nothing against haiku which include the moon or fireflies et al but I don’t enjoy…
It is very deep. Thinking hard about L1. What price can be labelled on the moon? At a discount? Strange! And hence on the dark side where we can't see?
It is priceless!
The haiku as well as The Moon!!
I like how each line resonates with the others. Well chosen.
Thanks, team.