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Sturgeon Moon, 28 August (opens the original)
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It happens on my solar return,the earth’s shadow catches the rimand works its way across a moonnamed after the sturgeon, hauled from another order of time, five rows of bony scutes along the back and flanks, barbels tasting the dark above the riverbed,the mouth opening downwards into silt.Long before there were humans with birthdaysit had perfected this arrangement:cartilage, armour, the asymmetrical tail,a body made for keeping low and continuing.There is nothing lunar about it.The name belongs
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This piece is from my collection The Pain of Glass (2024) (available here) and is dedicated to my siblings. <span
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