“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 –
