While Walking I Saw the Daylit Moon

free verse poem

today while walking
I saw the daylit moon
hanging

over a willow bush
and wished I could climb

from one to the other,
knot a rope
noose myself —

jump.

the way I imagine it:

neck
would separate jaggedly
from shoulders.

body
would thud heavily
to earth.

my blithely dripping head
my stump of
neck

would
dangle languidly
would

sway gently,
content finally
to ignore the stars
to ignor…