“Moon with a Supermarket Trolley” by Beverley Bie Brahic (poetry ’06)

photo of Beverly Bie Brahic (poetry '06), smiling in a striped sweater

“Moon with a Supermarket Trolley” by Beverley Bie Brahic (poetry ’06) appears along with an analysis in Carol Rumens’s poem of the week column at The Guardian.


Moon with a Supermarket Trolley

From my Juliet balcony
Overlooking a creek whose bed
Has been trash-filled for months,
Moon, I see you preening like a supermodel –

Nothing to do with me, or any
Of those other heavenly bodies
So difficult to discern
Through the excess of human light –                 

[…continue reading the poem and analysis]