Collected Poems of John Holmes
Holmes, John A., Jr.
2002
The old man and the moon
The old man and the moon
An old man stood beneath the moon. Pitiless moonlight did not hide His wrinkles or his stoop, and gleamed On hair as silver as it's under side. | |
They looked upon each other there, Till he felt bleak and still and cold As the moon's dark upper curve. He stirred and muttered, "Old, both old." | |
