Oh! what a beautiful moon
Bright hemisphere
Bathed in swathes
Of high-lit cloud
Rapt in a billowing scarf
Thrown across the sky
Entertained by stars
Pin-pricked and perfect
The chill brings the best out
In the dark
And the light
Of the night
Oh! what a beautiful moon
Bright hemisphere
Bathed in swathes
Of high-lit cloud
Brilliant, dissected disc
Pock-marked and perfect
Splendidly reposed
In a celestial deck-chair
Watching the world sail by
Beneath its heaven
The half-lit
Half-lit night-flit glory
Oh! what a beautiful moon
Bright hemisphere
Bathed in swathes
Of high-lit cloud
Caught up, and bound in our orbit
Its pulling and pushing
The light and the dark
Of the night and the day
Circuitous distance extending
The pushing and pulling
Of billions of years
Gradually fades away
And tides will turn no more
The ebbing and flowing
Under the half-bright sky-light
A-swing and a-sway
Oh! what a beautiful moon
Bright hemisphere
Bathed in swathes
Of high-lit cloud
Rapt in a billowing scarf
Thrown across the sky
Entertained by stars
Pin pricked, perfect.
Brilliant, dissected disc
Pock-marked, perfect
Oh! what a beautiful moon
Bright hemisphere
Bathed in swathes
Of high-lit cloud
Oh! what a beautiful moon
Bright hemisphere
Bathed in swathes…
A soundtrack to a film that is both historical and autobiographical, Yang’s music here finds graceful beauty in slowly unfolding melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 4, 2023