Category Archives: moon poems

coveting the moon

Posted on April 7, 2019 by

  we’re not sure how she got there, or where she’s going next, but we both want her and want to be her, so full and free, ballooning for that pinprick ceiling shadow show. so bright as though she might … Continue reading →

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cobbling it together by the light of the moon

Posted on April 2, 2019 by

best case , we face our fears taste this tum -bled why, ………….fly on wings pur -chased with sorrow. worse case , we trace our tears along this star -scarred sky, …………….try again to -morrow.   … In April, we … Continue reading →

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Aubade for a Sky Cracked Open

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

  Mourn that moon, gone too soon, swallowed whole by ombre blue and egg yolk rising. Perhaps she’s got work to do on the other side, as we run and hide and vow of silence in the drench of dawn. … Continue reading →

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sipping sunshine

Posted on February 26, 2019 by

.. , all that yellow jacket honey -coated daybreak, broken -open dawn. a yawn of moon aiding and a-bedding herself in snowy mountain morning duvet. a fray of sky fabric, billowed soft by breeze. …………………….shaken, …………………….stirred, whirred by one last … Continue reading →

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Skeleton Moons in Dark Closets

Posted on January 29, 2019 by

Crave her. Save her as a nightlight, lighthouse beacon for the sea. Hold her fast between these hanger clouds, the hush-loud sting of stars. Turn that golden knob. She’s waiting.   .. For twiglets.   

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Tea, and Stars

Posted on January 28, 2019 by

There’s a chai sky brewing, stewing in its own bright stir. She whirls, stretches long against a sugar cube moon and raises …………….(hands, ………………heart, ………………..hell) to tell her deepest stories, to spell herself in shards, to allow these aching leaves … Continue reading →

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Andromeda

Posted on January 22, 2019 by

  She sheds her sky -skin to begin, and reassembles herself …………………………………sane. . She gives the moon a shattered star -smooch, with lips of wax ………………………….and wane.     .. Prompted by Lil’s Poetics over at dVerse, and todays twiglet.  … Continue reading →

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