Hunter's Moon

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    Hunter's Moon
    Earth's still-born sister
    Cast-away

    Aborted

    Your ghostly image
    Pock-marked and pale

    Follows

    A haloed haunting

    Forever drawn
    By primitive
    Family ties

    Shy sibling,
    Nightly your clouded iris
    Averts our gaze,

    But this evening,
    In wonderful dilation

    You stoop low
    To peer

    In magnificent bloodshot beauty

    At what might have been

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    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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