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Poetry

Afternoon Moon

Lisa Kouroupis

Volume 9, Issue 1 ,

Photo by Caleb Jack on Unsplash

      After Nicole Gonzalez

In the afternoon the moon
gets up from its desk,
goes to the bus stop. The moon
carries a backpack: pencils
and the ends of a sandwich.
It stands at the curb with the clouds
like a sweet question.

Lisa Kouroupis

Lisa Kouroupis is an American poet. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Montana, and is a poetry editor for CutBank Magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Hyacinth Review, West Trade Review, Funicular Review, Lavender Review, and elsewhere.

In Volume 9, Issue 1