Moonrise Over Montana - Alissa Sammarco

poem read by Timothy Arliss OBrien

Moonrise over Montana
Alissa Sammarco

Big skies. Bigger than Texas in the summer.

Bigger than the ocean while floating on a tanker out over the Marianna Trench

Bigger than a bull in a China shop

Bigger than Soho serenades of sirens and honking and words thrown across the streets

Bigger than champaign cocktails

Bigger than chilled king crab legs reaching over the serving tray sides to catch someone’s wig

Bigger than air and sky and stars

Bigger than a slipstream across the sky, a rip tide in the surf, an undertow

Bigger than a kid’s eyes in a candy store

Bigger than rolling downhill until you’re so dizzy you can’t breathe

Bigger than you

Bigger than me

Bigger than us

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