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Dedicated to Beca /

We are looking at the moon

Through the delicate lines

of a spider's web

Dutifully spun in the

branches of a tree

She takes a sip of her Baja Blast

and says "You're right,

Maybe we shouldn't kill ourselves

Today."

I bite into a cinnabon delight

crunch the sugar between my teeth.

because I know what the moon

has told her.

I can still hear my own message

from that night when the sky was black

with despair

and the full moon was red from

screaming

There is no need to reply.

More from Kris Aziz ↓

• @tacobellkris on Instagram
• @tacobellkris on Substack

And now for the poem this was written after.

When the Moon is Full,

She never holds Me by the hand.

She grabs right behind the

gape of My neck and

drags me to all I've been avoiding.

When the Moon is Full,

She never whispers in My ear.

She screams at the top of Her lungs,

so loud, that her rasping voice awakens

the aliens in outer space; now peering from

their spaceships.

When the Moon is Full,

She never glides across the sky.

She anchors through the clouds

beaming directly for

everyone and everything in Her path.

When the Moon is Full,

She is never dainty but always true.

She smiles from above,

sneering at everything You thought You knew about Her,

and reminding you of exactly who You are

More from GiGi ↓

• @thegigirising on Threads
• @thematriarchyrising on Substack
• Her books, The Scorpio Rising and The Marilyn Rising: Letters to Marilyn
• She has a new book coming soon The California Rising: Poems from San Francisco to LA

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