Abstract
Many Moons Poet Sirrah Guest Editor's Note: "Many Moons" is found in the U.Va. papers and was published previously in Meridian, Issue 24, a U.Va. magazine. The manuscript is handwritten and signed "Poet Sirrah 5731." Breece used the term "Poet Sirrah" as signature for several of his poems, perhaps signifying his perception of himself as the "different one," irreverent and angry at the state of the world. He also often dated his poems using the Hebrew calendar. This poem was composed in 1971. What Autumn moon dancing exoticallyOn the railroad tracks could be seen as cold steel?A train laden with coal lumbered by.Bound—not far from where I was so soon to be.The invitation of a rocking restFor stone-bruised feet slid into the night and I walked.I could have come quicker to findA harvest of grapes and blood and melancholy,But the moon lured me—she knewI had time—she knew we needed time, and time, and time. [End Page 40] Copyright © 2012 Berea College
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