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A simple poem about the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I wrote this during a class on poetry that I was teaching for Cat Rambo’s excellent <\/span>writing academy<\/span><\/a>. (There’s a ton of <\/span>classes<\/span><\/a> available there–if it’s the kind of thing you do, you should check them out.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I think the writing exercise was something like, “You can find poetry where you look for it.” The night before, the moon had been a heavy, looming harvest orange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I’ve always liked traditional stories that depict the moon as a lonely woman. I wonder if that was in the back of my head.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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