Minnaloushe’s moon

Why light up the streets in

this hour of

half-

light

as we move between halogen offices

and LED homes?

We see clearly enough

beneath

Minnaloushe’s moon.

This is the time for

unproductive thoughts,

to recall

sometime, somewhere,

someone whose light,

imprinted in our mind,

still burns a

hole

into the night.

Matthew Harris’s work has been published in Landfall, Poetry NZ, JAAM, Trout, Kokako, Mayhem, and takahē and his NZ Film Commission funded short films have accrued over 40 international awards.