Pratik : Pratik's Current Issue Highlight: American Poet Lisa Zimmerman's Poem, "April Moon"

Monday, August 28, 2023

Pratik's Current Issue Highlight: American Poet Lisa Zimmerman's Poem, "April Moon"

LISA ZIMMERMAN

April Moon

Often spring arrives with only small revolts,

winter’s last-ditch effort to linger and punish

overturned in the dark as daffodils spear

carelessly from cold mud through root

tangle, earth’s black silence.

Tonight’s nearly full moon

interrupts tree branches, spills

onto the lawn in eerie threads to incite

purple crocus under the bird feeder.

Moonlight offers the dog

his shadow double on the driveway.

Over the fence a raccoon rattles a trash can lid,

setting all the neighborhood dogs on alert,

their barks and plaintive howling

the gleaming moon accepts as adoration.

Lisa Zimmerman’s poetry collections include How the Garden Looks from Here (Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award winner) The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press) and Sainted (Main Street Rag). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Redbook, The Sun, Cave Wall, Poet Lore, Vox Populi, and other journals. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, five times for the Pushcart Prize, and included in the 2020 Best Small Fictions anthology.

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