Lunar love at first sight: Why are we so bewitched by the full moon?

When poet and artist Frieda Hughes finds herself incapacitated, there’s solace in the ‘sky’

And then, out of the blue / Of the unpredictable, towelled in the arms of a friend, / Arrives the Moon-in-a-Box I’d bought from her art show (Frieda Hughes)

THE MOON-IN-A-BOX

My world slowed down to the speed of a crutch-thump

Beneath my operated knee. Meniscus membrane re-stitched to bone,