“The Moon,” by Chloe Martinez (Poetry ’09)

“The Moon,” a poem by 2009 alum Chloe Martinez, was recently featured in Poetry Northwest. Read an excerpt below:

The Moon

If we can put a man on the moon,
surely we can figure this out.

If the man puts out the moon,
we can surely put that man-figure out.

The moon can-cans on. Man insures.
We put out this figure: If.

Put a figure on the can. We can out this,
we can moon-man on. Surely.

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://www.poetrynw.org/chloe-martinez-the-moon/