María Castro Domínguez – Ice on the moon has brought us here

Dominguez LE P&W February 2025

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Live Encounters Poetry & Writing February 2025

Ice on the moon has brought us here,  poem by Maria Castro Dominguez.


Ice on the moon has brought us here

We can see its full orb from our windows
when we wake up to a sky brimful of dark.
How it swirls from black to indigo to blue.
That’s where we used to live
back when there was water.

Our children are waiting fully dressed.

We dig and dig
into craters for water,
we dig and dig
until our suits are covered in dust,
until the moon waxes while the earth wanes,
until there is a liquid world again.

Our parched children are waiting for the call.


© María Castro Domínguez

María Castro Domínguez is the author of A Face in The Crowd, her Erbacce–press winning collection, and Ten Truths from Wonderland (Hedgehog Poetry Press), a collaboration with Matt Duggan. Winner of the first prize in The Plaza Poetry. She was highly commended in The Red Shed Poetry Competition last year and made it to Renard press’ The Building Bridges Poetry Competition shortlist. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals

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