‘Off balance there’

Gibbous moon

“Unheralded, the gibbous moon
arrives too late, if not too soon,
a goblet neither full nor empty,
off balance there, like Humpty Dumpty….’’

— From “Gibbous Moon,’’ by Alfred Nicol, Massachusetts-based poet

Here’s the whole poem.

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