Banana Moon

© John C. Mannone

The buttered crescent

rose into the twilight froth,

floated into root beer night

fizzing stars bursting out

of view; nothing left

but split banana moon

glazed by the cherry sun

already dipped below

the chocolate horizon

Just desserts

for milkshake skies shaken

with all that ice cream light

John C. Mannone is a widely published award-winning poet nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize and the 2010 Rhysling Poetry Award. His poetry and short fiction appear in numerous literary and speculative fiction journals such as the Pirene's Fountain, Aethlon, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Linnet's Wings, Eclectic Flash, Liebamour, Liquid Imagination, Silver Blade, Astropoetica, and Static Movement. His work is also anthologized in Lame Goat Press and with several other presses. Professor Mannone teaches college physics and is the senior editor for the Journal of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers.