The Pub

Moonlight On Scaffolding

Jane Beal

I turn a corner and see the full moon
shining on two stories of scaffolding.

In the night, light leans against cement blocks:
what will be built here?  Whose unfinished dream

rises before me like a metaphor?

Dr. Jane Beal is an English professor, originally from Vallejo, CA, who has also worked as a carpenter’s assistant, an optician, and a doula. She specializes in medieval literature, classical mythology, and literature of the Bible. This past August, Jane spent ten days in Jerusalem