Thread by @dchiasso, Moon twitter: get ready tonighthttps://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1247536374422458370 I’ll be tweeting out selections from this: [...]

Dan Chiasson

dchiasso

Moon twitter: get ready tonight https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1247536374422458370">https://twitter.com/washingto...

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1247536374422458370

I’ll be tweeting out selections from this:

Name a more iconic duo

Dickinson, from "I watched the moon around the house":

One by Brenda S; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52240/im-over-the-moon">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/522...

I don’t like what the moon is supposed to do.

And this beautiful passage from Glück’s “Prism”:

This one I wrote

One of my favorite songs by @NekoCase

https://youtu.be/blmnnwfa0mE ">https://youtu.be/blmnnwfa0... via @YouTube

And, oh my, maybe the greatest lines in English about the moon, from Plath’s “Edge”

Dunno tho, Coleridge:

Second time Frost @ Midnight comes up, @PlantAsylum

In conclusion:

"We begin to have an interest in sun, moon, and stars."

—Thoreau& #39;s Journal, August 31, 1839

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