Moon Haikus

Kathryn Jones

February 26, 2023

In the river’s bend 

Moon hangs above the Chisos

Telling ghost stories 

Blue moon at Marfa,  

Mystery lights in the desert –

Cosmic cowboys ride 

Palo Duro moon

shines high above the canyon –

lamp for the Lighthouse

Moon on the Brazos:

Canoeing by candlelight

down a blue river

The sand dollar moon

pulls at tides and scatters shells 

on Padre Island

Kathryn Jones is a journalist, essayist, author, and poet. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and in the anthologies A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Action in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) and Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas. Her poetry has been published on tejacovido.com, in the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast. She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2016.