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Blood Moon<br />
LEONORE HILDEBRANDT<br />
tonight the moon is bandaged<br />
burned by degrees<br />
I step out of my house<br />
to see<br />
under the same moon<br />
tonight your town is weeping<br />
the slender tower shatters and falls<br />
market stalls are closed tonight<br />
the plaza’s lanterns die<br />
one by one<br />
the woman with the flowers<br />
the milk boy<br />
all gone<br />
tonight your house<br />
rips open<br />
the sofa stares dumbly into the street<br />
you walk away<br />
you carry a sleeping child<br />
a darker air tonight sweeps<br />
over rivers and highways<br />
tonight you walk<br />
you follow a map of limb and shadow<br />
this way, you say<br />
it’s here<br />
I step out of my house tonight<br />
to see<br />
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