From Crescere: To Grow

Angie Macri

When full, the moon has no corners

so I prefer it waxing, waning, crescent

providing a room with angles.

The shape might seem incomplete

if you know its potential. Its shadow

holds the imprint of that perfect body

that has been, is coming, has come and gone

as long as anyone remembers. Take it

by the horns means to own it,

to will it where or how it needs to be

with full confidence that you know the way

by heart, and I do. I mind the points

when I grip each end of the crescent.

I taste the dust of impacts. I know the room.

Image © Europeana

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Angie Macri is the author of Sunset Cue (Bordighera Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize; Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Cowles Poetry Book Prize; and Fear Nothing of the Future or the Past (Finishing Line Press, 2014). An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, Macri earned her MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and teaches at Hendrix College.