Lunar Quartet

Betsy Joseph

August 20, 2023

Shadow clouds unspool

over a fully bright moon.

Night closes her eyes.

Fully sated moon,

you are a lunar wonder

in the blue-tinged dark.

Dawn peels back the night

to showcase a waning moon—

soft, still alluring 

Yellow orb of light

preceding morning breakfast:

creamy yolk of moon.

Betsy Joseph lives in Dallas and has poems which have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. She is the author of two poetry books published by Lamar University Literary Press: Only So Many Autumns (2019) and most recently, Relatively Speaking (2022), a collaborative collection with her brother, poet Chip Dameron.