Homework
It’s evening again, late.
I go out into the lane
and doodle a beard and mustache
on the face of the moon
with a red pen.
Over the next hill
an old teacher of mine
takes off her glasses
and wipes the lenses with a soft cloth.
She can’t believe
what she’s just seen.
Copyright Credit: Simon Armitage, "Homework" from The Unaccompanied. Copyright © 2017 by Simon Armitage. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc..