Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Japka was born in Warri, Nigeria, and currently lives in Ireland. His poetry has been widely published. He has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and he won the Yeats Pierce Loughran Award in 2008. You’re a writer, so what do you moonlight as?
Moonlight
By Emmanuel Japka
I’ve to tell you, I like a lot
when David Biespiel said, writers
moonlight as this, as that.
Verbed for mask. Verbed from
what crawled out
of the sun to the night.
The last line is perfection.