The Moon’s Instructions to a Young Girl at a Meeting of the Lunar Society, by Mikki Aronoff3/10/2019
The Moon’s Instructions to a Young Girl at a Meeting of the Lunar Society Let go your sister’s sash as you watch the caged bird gasp, its once puffed chest stretched against the bubble of glass. Unfurl your brow as you eye the bird’s white winged flutter, its pink tongue flicking for air, grey eyes dulling. Uncurl your sister’s fingers, gentle on your neck. Let go of clenched churning. Hold fast flame’s fevered reflections, observe light’s flickers licking at the bird’s closing gift to you. Draw in bright crimson’s mercy, my auspices long abandoned but for the light I shed for your long walk home. Mikki Aronoff Mikki Aronoff’s work has appeared in The Lake, EastLit, Virga, Bearing the Mask: Southwest Persona Poems, Love’s Executive Order, bosque7, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, SurVision, Love Like Salt, London Reader, Popshot Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. A New Mexico poet, she is also involved in animal advocacy.
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