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Cold Moon
Each month I show you the same face, and you call me a different name. Now you call me Cold Moon, but I am always cold. You call me Long Night Moon, but my nights are always long, bright on one side, dark the other. I am the same, always, and you mak...
Frost Moon
Death walks with me but there is no scythe. For some it's sudden, done. For others, no swift taking, but a slow evaporation, a stiffening, a brittleness, a steady sloughing of the self. This rain is heavy, loud. Fallen leaves turn black and slimy, si...
Red Moon
You took my cat from me. He flew from his body. I could not hold him. I think it was your color that called him. Same to same. Now when I see you, I hear him purr. I could not hold him. Aug. 16, 5:16 p.m. EDT — Full Sturgeon Moon, when this large f...
Thunder Moon | Revision
It woke me at midnight. It touches everything, the photographs on the far wall, the chair that rocked me on my grandmother's lap, this bed in its summer whites. It's quiet, stealthy. If I sit still long enough, I can see it move. But the light in thi...
June Moon
Rose Moon, open. Strawberry Moon, fill our mouths with sweetness. It is the month of marriage, weddings under arches, long dresses and dress coats. Women marry men, men marry men, women marry women, inconstant humans promising constancy, forgetting h...
Flower Moon
May Moon, Milk moon, you hide in the rain. Meadows are wild with lupine, columbine and phlox. Tulips and violets open their hearts. It is time to plant the corn. Young squirrels practice mating in the garden, all four in a tumble of spring, taking tu...
Pink Moon
Full Moon over Fitzroy Originally uploaded by johncarney Pink Moon, Egg Moon, you bring snow and crow complaining from the spruce tree. You bury the crocus. You bend the trees down. Grass Moon, Fish Moon, harbinger of spring, why are you so cold? Apr...
