If You Live Where There are Hills

If You Live Where There are Hills
-- Lilian Moore

Full moon tonight.

We watch the moon rise
behind the hill,
moving as if
from a deep and secret place.

A slice of moon
peers
over the hill.

then rising steadily
its perfect face
flushed with borrowed
sun

the moon sails
off the hilltop
into the night sky

and pours
its dazzling glow
on hte darkened world below.

"Look!" we cry.
"Look at our shadows!
It's bright as day!"