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Kathy Kubik
Total
Lunar Eclipse
There's
blood on the moon tonight.
It
flows over the white, once bright
as
clean sheets; now a contagion
of
raw yellow over a half-eclipsed sphere.
We
drink shiraz,
it
stains our lips and tongues burnt orange.
The
next eclipse is three years away
and
I wonder if your shadow will
engulf
me then, burn cheeks red,
block
the light.
But
that would be impossible.
Our
orbits would need to cross the same plane of space
And
your schedule is somewhat erratic.
My
moon will never be completely dark.
I
have lingering memories of settling dust and water vapor.
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Kathy Kubik's
work has appeared in Voices
Magazine, T-zero
Xpandazine,
SaucyVox(Dot)com, ERWA, CleanSheets, Citizen32
and the
upcoming Women of the Web anthology (Sun Rising Press). To see
more of her work, visit her on the web at: kathykubik.com.
email: K.Kubik
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