Here, a poet finds a new way to describe a half moon.

The Moon

Robert Bly

After writing poems all day,
I go off to see the moon in the pines.
Far in the woods I sit down against a pine.
The moon has her porches turned to face the light,
But the deep part of her house is in the darkness.

from Eating the Honey of Words, 1999
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY