It is said that there/

will be a full moon for Christmas/

That it has been over 40 years since the /

last time/

and won’t be seen again/

for almost two decades/

forty years ago I was a teenager/

looking up/

on an urban moonscape/

seventeen years hence/

I will have met and exceeded/

my three score and ten/

and I know/

even then I will lift my eyes to the/

sky/

and wonder