Phebe Davidson

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Luna in August

(Nonet)

A Bach partita fills this night room
As if it had found its one home,
Swelling and rising, a theme,
A variation, then
Something smaller than
I had foreseen:
Moth on screen.
Silent.
Green.

Phebe Davidson is a recovering academic, the author of twenty-some published collections of poems, a contributing editor at Tar River Poetry and a staff writer for The Asheville Poetry Review. Her newest book is Waking to Light (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2012).