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P o e m s f o r t h e M o o n t h e S u n
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Poems for the Moon the Sun
Part 1: “The Moon”
Nighttime Stage Left 1 Born Stubborn Me 2
The Swan 3
Part 2: “Three Bays”
Half-Moon Bay 4
Bora Bora Bay 5 Prudhoe Bay 6
Part 3: “Three Hours”
Swell 7 Natural Observation 8
The Perennial Us 9
Part 4: “The Sun”
Wedding Day 10
England / Moving Day 11 Daytime Stage Right 12
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Part 1
“The Moon”
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Nighttime Stage Right
Night, come covered in something nice An orange moon peaking in and out
Bonfires bold and bright
Starry scarf pulled tight,Come, come, my long awaited Night
Crumble on top of my rooftopOr awkwardly land on the lensOf my Canon Camera, I inviteThe Cosmos over for mid-darkDrinks
This bar will never ever close
Your tight belt keeps in the gravityBut if you eat another dying sunThe buttons on your pitch-black slacksWill pop – an expanding waistline, blubberWell over the Earth
But there is something else I must assert
If you ever become drunk And need a place to sleepFeel free to crash in myBackyard, I will warm yourMilk, I will keep the Daytime Away, that bastard – if I everHear you scream, awake or Asleep, I’ll come running,Batting away intruders, or
Easing away night-terrors,The awful things you mustDream about
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Born Stubborn Me
We live in an overpopulated acreage A suffocating plane jammed betweenTwo spheres
The SUN& The MOON
They ramble on and on and on and on and on and on
They shoot the tides at each other. Bonfires and beach days hurdled towards the wallSMASH
Cracking them into a billion,Billion pieces, events and present
Tense now dust twinkling withoutConversation:
The STARS
Sunlight, moonlight, florescent light – all are forms of light,Only the diminishment of darkness allows us to categorize And classify
Spatial summation, all of this coming together for us
To love, to propose, to marry – the different backdropsRolling carts and thousands of forces pushing and pulling
Pushing and pulling and pushing and pulling
A pulley system hinged on the back of the cosmosRaising and lowering
Raising and lowering and raising and lowering
A papier-mâché set of spheres:The Moon, the Sun
Prickly abnormality: the Stars
All competing with each other, each filling the cavity left by the other, everything andanything, all together
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The Swan
Her swan face, a grinning coaxThe feathers all glued on andStaying
Her wings are made of mangledCoat hangers and pages ofOld textbooks, the ones sheMust have had for her classesLast semester
A living sketch of awkwardnessHer distinctive facial featuresMake her weird and new to all
Eyes, I see her always – feetSprung up on lecture hall chairsSometimes we would shoot atEach other with a half-scaredStare
I can feel the unknown texture of her handsGroping the unknown texture of my heartI imagine if she had been a texture herselfIt would be similar to an empty oil drum
No
She see’s meWriting
The rounded corners of her eye start toShape into something sharp, they turn red, A red hexagon
I spit up
A slight cough covered by my hand
She looks back with a completed lookWings outstretched and fluttering manically
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Part 2“Three Bays”
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Half-Moon Bay
Perched upon costal bedrockI lapse into the submergence
Of ocean-voice
Jubilation coexists with the waves
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Bora Bora Bay
Spider web strung out on exotic plantsDraping over their oversized petals, canopying the moonlight
The spiders are far off, burrowing inside of nature’s wombCrawling all over its walls and hatching their babies on distant planets
With our hands cupped we can see through the cracks in these leavesThe little tiny holes eaten by caterpillars and other unbelievable things A fleshed-meshed telescope, how it allows us to see the Moon, the Sun And a few meteorites
Objects in space – an unending tumbleOur hands, still cupped, can see right to the
End of infinity, the rounding edges
All of this is available to us from our hammockUnderneath the spider web, our revolving window
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Prudhoe Bay
Night sky exterminated by candle, you leave this roomReturning to the hoots of Owls, escape out of the chimney
Leave nothing but soot
Beyond midnight, darkness maimedI cannot imagine anything darker thanPrudhoe Bay
The expanse of stars, the receding hairlineOf the universe’s true mane
I do not wait for Day
It’s troubling to me, Night SkyI worry about it right before bedtimeYour inevitable death – for in three hours
The blossom of sunshine
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Part 3:
“Three Hours”
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Swell
A jumbled attempt at wordsPours out of a reamed mouth
A vast swell
LIMITLESS – the line ofSprawled wings, a murder ofCrows zipping throughPower lines
My bedroom window
One crow breaks off
His eyes and mind setOn a rodent splatteredOn the side of the road
Porcelain beaks,Whistling
An oncoming clamor for stinking fleshThe fevered frenzy of feeding time
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Natural Observation
OBSERVE
The poet and a pallet of pointless
Observations, slight plays performedInstead of conversation
Soft sweet talk to swoon the Universe
He steps up to the mic A single string of Christmas lightsStrung up along The Ship’s stageTo differentiae his black clothes fromThe black backdrop
Observe
The poet in his queen, a single bodySloppily spiraled, bored and bare,Enjoying the cold air
From his ceiling fan
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The Perennial Us
The perennial us,High substance andSupporters of blissful
Order
Finite are mostBut our longevity is unrivaledEven by the soul of our creator
Perennial God, turn the roses’ pedals into platesFeeding the hungry and less fortunate with storiesOf us
All are lost in the chaotic shuffling of futuresThis flesh full of body and her flesh full ofBeauty flash from a dark, stupid cave
The perennial rose, the distance it has unfurledStrife savvy stem strayed on an abrupt wind
EarthBounded byThe silence of
Everything outsideOf it’s borders, whatCould even be out there?Besides dark? Besides absence?Six month of Night follow six monthsOf light, travelling round and round andRound and round and round and round againCrystalloid treadmill, sideways and circular keepingEverything in blissful order – we’re okay, I’ll tie you upBound your legs
Perianal rose, all I want is something to love, to holdIf a rose is a rose is a rose, then what is the truth in all I have been told?
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Part 4:“The Sun”
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Wedding Day
We’re performing at the theatreSwinging on piano chordsSwimming in fishbowls
All along they said sentences should be songs Acting like we’re acting that we don’t want to actNo more
Two bodies meshed together by puppeteersChewing gum in bed, cutting the cake in equalShares
Skipping down, hand in hand
Working on proper stanceChoreographing the danceTomorrow is opening nightThe big show
Our friends are all coming out to see us go Jammed packed in taxicabs
Be mindful of the overflow
It’s getting closer and closerIt’s getting closer and closer
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England / Moving Day
The miles are increasingSecond by second, you’reNo longer all that close to
Me
The Clock must have ADHD or somethingIt cant fucking sit still, it’s silly, it’s hands Are hyperactive and spinning
If it had a smile it would smile atEach loss of year and at each new mile
D U M B
A sad face drawn on a birthday party balloonIt’s another addition to the frowning balloonsThat have come before, lost now, given to theUniverse, its fetish for birthday party memorabiliaIs important to consider
October is getting nearer And you are getting fartherOr is it that you’re getting closer
Who knows?
Not me!
Oceans are packed into cardboard boxes And a dusty, orangey sky acts as foam soThe FedEx men cant crush it – I’m shippingOff, emotionally, physically
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Daytime Stage Right
Clay nectar caked with yellow acrylic – two-seated cycle, picnic basket on the frontFoolish butterfly, flutter flutter flutter on, you can eat it all once it’s dry
Hello beautiful girl, what does your subconscious spring towards?Do you have the urge to bounce on trampolines?Touching the clouds and pulling down the October sky wallpaper Just to see what’s behind. Will it be God sitting on his magic carpet?
Dreams ooze over into anatomyMy countless titles for poetryBe my thick red bloodBe my pizzazz
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Poems for the Moon the Sun
Poems for the Moon & the Sun
Was written in the fall of 2011
“The Perennial Us” originally titled “Perennial Rose”“The Swan” originally titled “Swan Suit”
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Adjectives lunar selenicOrbital characteristicsPerigee 362600 km(356400–370400 km)
Apogee 405400 km(404000–406700 km)Semi-major axis 384399km (0.00257 AU)[1]Eccentricity 0.0549 [1]Orbital period 27.321582 d(27 d 7 h 43.1 min[1])Synodic period 29.530589 d(29 d 12 h 44 min 2.9 s)
Average orbital speed1.022 km/s Inclination5.145° to the ecliptic[2][a]
Longitude of ascendingnode regressing by onerevolution in 18.6 years
Argument of perigeeprogressing by onerevolution in 8.85 yearsSatellite of Earth Physicalcharacteristics Meanradius 1737.10 km (0.273Earths)[1][3][4]Equatorial radius 1738.14km (0.273 Earths)[3] Polar
radius 1735.97 km (0.273Earths)[3] Flattening0.00125 Circumference10921 km (equatorial)Surface area 3.793×107km2 (0.074 Earths)
Volume 2.1958×1010 km3(0.020 Earths) Mass7.3477×1022 kg (0.012300Earths[1]) Mean density3.3464 g/cm3[1] 0.606 × Earth Surface gravity
1.622 m/s2 (0.1654 g)Moment of inertia factor0.3929±0.0009[5] Escapevelocity 2.38 km/s Siderealrotation period 27.321582d (synchronous)Equatorial rotationvelocity 4.627 m/s Axial
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tilt 1.5424° to ecliptic6.687° to orbit plane[2]
Albedo 0.136[6] Surfacetemp. min mean maxEquator 100 K 220 K 390K 85°N [7] 70 K 130 K 230
K Apparent magnitude!2.5 to !12.9[b] !12.74(mean full moon)[3]
Angular diameter 29.3 to34.1 arcminutes[3][c]
Mean distance from Earth1.496 ×108 km 8 min 19 s atlight speed Visual
brightness (V) !26.74[1] Absolute magnitude4.83[1] Spectralclassification G2V
Metallicity Z = 0.0122[2] Angular size 31.6–32.7′[3] Adjectives Solar Orbitalcharacteristics Meandistance from Milky Way
core " 2.7×1017 km 27200light-years Galacticperiod (2.25–2.50)×108 a
Velocity " 220 km/s (orbitaround the center of the
Milky Way) " 20 km/s(relative to average
velocity of other stars instellar neighborhood) " 370 km/s[4] (relative tothe cosmic microwavebackground) Physicalcharacteristics Equatorialradius 696342±65 km[5]109 × Earth[6] Equatorialcircumference 4.379×106km[6] 109 × Earth[6]
Flattening 9×10!6 Surfacearea 6.09×1012 km2[6]
12000 × Earth[6] Volume1.41×1018 km3[6] 1300000× Earth Mass(1.98855±0.00025)×1030kg[1] 333000 × Earth[1]
Average density 1.408g/cm3[1][6][7] 0.255 × Earth[1][6] Center
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density (modeled) 162.2g/cm3[1] 12.4 × EarthEquatorial surface gravity274.0 m/s2[1] 27.94 g27542.29 cgs 28 × Earth[6]Escape velocity (from the
surface) 617.7 km/s[6] 55 × Earth[6] TemperatureCenter (modeled):1.57×107 K[1]Photosphere (effective):
5778 K[1] Corona: " 5×106K Luminosity (Lsol)
3.846 ×1026 W[1] "
3.75×1028 lm " 98 lm/Wefficacy Mean radiance(Isol) 2.009×107
W·m!2·sr!1 Age "4.6
billion years[8][9]
The end, the end