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Article: Two moons.(Poem)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Two Moons
The moon will all but disappear, which is to say the world is in
the way again. It will take two hours to return to full, which is
what we, in our way, call a whole half lit.
The last eclipse I didn't understand what I do now.
I was stunned by lawn sculptures of waves outside the long
lobbied Delano on South Beach, its oceanside wide open, its
twenty-five foot billowing white drapes sucked to my back and
then not and then sucked again, its cavity fighting mine.
The galaxy is all wrong with a nine-dollar cosmopolitan. I
couldn't get daylight's alibi. Someone said gimme an O. I said
gimme another. We couldn't get the ...