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Full Moon


A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket –

And you listening. 
A spider’s web, tense for the dew’s touch. 
A pail lifted, still and brimming – mirror 
To tempt a first star to a tremor.

Cows are going home in the lane there, looping the hedges 
with their warm wreaths of breath – 
A dark river of blood, many boulders, 
Balancing unspilled milk.

"Moon!" you cry suddenly, "Moon! Moon!"

The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work

That points at him amazed.

Ted Hughes
1930 - 1980