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sleeping with the moon
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i'm in my ninth month
and my belly
is doing a good imitation of a melon
(though it's really not green enough)

i've known since the sonogram
that i was pregnant with the moon
and now
i turn out the lights at night
and watch it's glow
and imagine the delivery
spreading my legs
the beam of soft light
shining from me

it happened last summer
all those nights on the roof
sleeping under the stars
and yes
it's true
sleeping with the moon

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Ray Heinrich
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Copyright © Ray Heinrich
February 1997

...an essay in this room by Keiko Imaoka...
the moon over the sea of japan
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