ADB-151226 It was the kind of moon you wanted to visit with a sharp knife and some crackers
The moon was so full last night I thought it was going to roll right out of the sky. We tried to set up the telescope but clouds started drifting in, and we couldn’t get the machine to focus properly. Modern problems. Man I wish Santa had brought me a proper camera. The iPhone is fine (my lens is cracked) but this is my photograph of the full moon rising.
It looks like a bad impressionist painting of the movie Christine, with a blurry white hole in the middle of the sky. I know it’s dusk. I know it’s not telephoto. I know I’m in a moving vehicle (never mind having a tripod…). But not one single emotional note was captured. Not one. The moon looked ALIVE, like a god with a storied face. It took our breath away. It got the kids to look up from their iDevices. It was a moon I’ll remember as majestic, not a foggy haze, not as a wincy blob, not as a blurry, molten ball. :’(
It was the kinda moon like at the end of a movie, or when escaping with E.T. It was the kind of moon people fall in love underneath or write songs about. It was the kind of moon that causes people to take notice. It was the kind of moon you wanted to visit with a sharp knife and some crackers. It was that kind of moon.
This post activated my gag reflex for one simple reason: I hate lazy clichéd descriptions, similes and metaphors. The draw-back to writing on a drawing, is that it’s much harder to go back and edit. The only line I liked became the title: “It was the kind of moon you wanted to visit with a sharp knife and some crackers.” As I got ready for bed I kept trying to one-up my lines, to get out of my comfortable, lazy brain and into something more original.
It was the kind of moon that hung in the black sky like a dollop of fresh cream.
It was the kind of moon that gave lycanthropes a hardon.
It was the kind of moon that pulled a man’s reason to low tide.
What kind of moon was it? Let me know by leaving a response below.
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