Mary’s Moon

Clavius, Tycho, Copernicus, Picard
Sights as familiar to her as Town End
God save King George, bon voyage Captain Scott
And Miss Blagg has a handful of maps to emend

Montes, lacus sine nomine
Now given names as befit charted lands
Mare, mare, maria lunae
Spread out beneath Mary Blagg's patient hands

Sinus Aestuum, Fra Mauro and Hadley
Much that connects them is doubtful and dark;
While Suffragettes dabble in bombings and arson
Miss Mary is making her own peaceful mark

Montes, lacus sine nomine
Now given names as befit charted lands
Mare, mare, maria lunae
Spread out beneath Mary Blagg's patient hands.