The act of writing poetry, for Sofia Starnes, is a "getting out of the way" so that a poem might occur, a poem that must itself become a place of resonance, where the reader might recognize a voice otherwise unheard.
The Consequence of Moonlight
is a poetic invitation to an awareness of an underlying Presence; it is also a call to
be
present as a loving witness of valuable--and vulnerable--things.
These poems are written to be depositories for the reader's experiences. The poem's truth is its emotion, nothing else. Why moonlight? Because the moon has no light of its own; it lives on borrowed light, as we do. The moon is best perceived and most needed in the dark, fulfilling itself in absence. It is both
here
and
there
, as is often true for saints, whose luminosity is seen as lunacy in the world.