The Aurora Review

Winter/Spring 2005

The Blues by Ione Citrin

New Moon
by Bridgette Alyce

impatient for daylight
she lies quietly

the cup of life
unsweetened, almost full

mother wit, common and
even bought sense
are no consolation prize

yet the aftertaste of a love
savored in the season of
her full moon
lingers

with the promise
to see her through
till morning...

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