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The Lonelier Moon
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Armstrong has seen it
from its sister.
He wants to be with her:
plant his red stripes,
blue sky, into her.
It is not enough to land
on one moon
knowing the other is
untouched.
Isn't that what the myths say too:
the twin goddess
persuaded by a trickster,
drifted out beyond
her sister's reach,
fooled into solitude.
Armstrong knows
what it is to reach out
for a god
and come back a man.
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Writer
Bio
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J. P. Dancing Bear is editor-in-chief of Disquieting Muses, the host of "Out of Our Minds," a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP, and the owner of Dream Horse Press. His poems have been published in hundreds of journals, including New York Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Mid-America Poetry Review.
dbear@value.net
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