How can April be the cruelest month when it’s National Poetry Month? And The Atlantic teases readers with a reminder that John Updike wasn’t just a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He was a pretty good poet as well.
Exhibit A is this excerpt from Updike’s “Half Moon, Small Cloud”:
For what is the moon, that it haunts us,
this impudent companion immigrated.f
from the system’s less fortunate margins,
the realm of dust collected in orbs?
The full poem was published in their October 2006 issue, and you can read it here. Additional poems of Updike’s that The Atlantic published are also linked: