Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar and the forthcoming collection My Infinity. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.
Painting by Karenna Brown
The day moon sits like a crooked smile
just above the horizon, spins
in a sky as blue as Mary’s robe
and travels to Afghanistan
to buy lapis lazuli like the masters
of the R…
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