A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald’s signature sensitivity to nature, the poem chronicles a night on the Severn Estuary as the moonrise travels through its five stages: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon, and moon reborn.Yes this is the moon this hurryingMuscular unsolid unstillnessThis endless wavering in whose engineI too am living