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A million moons drape over each leaf, Multiplying my eye Fanning over lost laced loves. Flashlights open hollow caverns of stars Ivy beckons My feet float over them, Breathing rust and yarrow Coal and clover Grassy constellations in a myriad of soft blue Nothing is coming for me here But the moon watches him I look over darkened shoulder And see iridescence, my moon-silhouette, Gardening the night fruit Lunar beams crown my head, I am another moon. Dark and light, watchful phases A million raindrops Invert the sky and earth And paint with them on the ground I hold ceramic bowl swirling A century old stone Rain presses on me like a thumb sealing a letter The leaves fall, digital and real, striations of glistening decay Gingko fans muddle, outlining their mother Collaging the trees’ scraps into halos Rain covers concrete cherubs Their eyes blank, nested in ancient vines Watching the clouds cleanse their concrete bodies. Moonset is behind the weeping sky. The pools ripple. Leaves shake the wet from their moon drunkenness. They remember, in cells and membranes How moonlight rebirths them in the dark. I look under the source, and see my sky silken silhouette. Darker, then lighter. Eclipsed mind and heart. The rain fills my empty bowl. The moon looks into it.
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Feb 22
Feb 22, 2026 at 12:50 PM UTC
a million moons
A million moons drape over each leaf, Multiplying my eye Fanning over lost laced loves. Flashlights open hollow caverns of stars Ivy beckons My feet float over them, Breathing rust and yarrow Coal and clover Grassy constellations in a myriad of soft blue Nothing is coming for me here But the moon watches him I look over darkened shoulder And see iridescence, my moon-silhouette, Gardening the night fruit Lunar beams crown my head, I am another moon. Dark and light, watchful phases A million raindrops Invert the sky and earth And paint with them on the ground I hold ceramic bowl swirling A century old stone Rain presses on me like a thumb sealing a letter The leaves fall, digital and real, striations of glistening decay Gingko fans muddle, outlining their mother Collaging the trees’ scraps into halos Rain covers concrete cherubs Their eyes blank, nested in ancient vines Watching the clouds cleanse their concrete bodies. Moonset is behind the weeping sky. The pools ripple. Leaves shake the wet from their moon drunkenness. They remember, in cells and membranes How moonlight rebirths them in the dark. I look under the source, and see my sky silken silhouette. Darker, then lighter. Eclipsed mind and heart. The rain fills my empty bowl. The moon looks into it.
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Feb 22
Feb 22, 2026 at 12:50 PM UTC
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