New Poetry by Sophia Pandeya

Odysseys of an Onion Moon

Last night, beneath

the warm June window, she dreamt

the moon was an onion,  wedded

to all manner of odds

the full moon onion in cahoots

with the child playing hooky

from the odious class, slipped

under an armpit and hey presto!

feverish clouds appeared

fluffy as a sickbed

the destiny of the demi-moon onion

was a bit more complex

one half of a twin, forgotten 

in the rotten cavities of the fridge

she suffered the pain of her sibling

nonetheless. Everyone thinks 

they are crying while

slicing flesh & bulb

but really the lunar onions are just

homeless tears waiting

for eyes to take them in

an excellent root-boat 

the hollowing quarter moon resents

being a namesake in the Yankee pocket

afloat in the indigo sky, he plies 

his cause, dropping leaflets 

of protest moonlight, deep 

into the sleepless night

as for the much maligned 

crescent onion, there is little

to tell except, that in Vienna 

the croissant-moon was made

a buttery scape-goat for

the defeated Ottomans

its a popular myth

that the onion-moon disappears

in the dark sky but actually

she has dissolved into honey, a magic

syrup poured into the hoots of barn owls

the throats of bullfrogs, the sore singing

wings of the cicadas. There never seems

to be enough onion-moon 

to go around

- Sophia Pandeya 2015

Sophia Pandeya is an Asian-American poet. Her publications include Cactus Heart, Askew Poetry, Bank Heavy Press and Spilled Ink as well as Poetry International, The Adirondack Review, The Daily O,  Lantern Journal, Convergence Journal AntiSerious and  Full Of Crow.  My debut  poetry collection, Peripheries, is being published by Cyberhex Press in July.