Date With the Moon

The sound of a cow peeing
is the wettest sound, let go

like a bucket slush on a barn slab
or so my grandfather used to

say. When my son comes home
I hear his fire hose upstairs

and remember how it was to
decompress so quickly. Grandad 

once came out of the men’s
room shaking his head, and when

I asked why, he said that the room
was full of old men, half of which

couldn’t get started, and the other half
couldn’t stop. It’s my date with the moon

tonight--out the window of the master loo
at 3am. Perfect view, the creek trickling on.
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