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we are like the moon by Louise Longson



we are like the moon 


                   shrinking


  it is only natural

 after a hot birth

    the violence 

      of impact


  as planets 

    coalesce

     collide 


    bound 

 together

    bound 


     to get


     cooler

       brittle


      to break

        

      into fault-


      lines that are

     at first nothing


    more than wrinkles

                            in time

                          

                                   but turn

                              into stair-steep

                                           cliffs and


                                                                 chasms


                                                                                    leaving scars

                                                                                                              visible     in       the void








Louise Longson is widely published in print/online. She is the author of chapbooks Hanging Fire and Songs from the Witch Bottle. In 2023, she won the Kari-Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize with her soon-to-be-published collection These are her thoughts as she falls and was also Pushcart Prize nominated. She works for a charity offering support services to people whose physical and emotional distress is caused by loneliness and social isolation, often rooted in historic trauma. Her poetry brings together her personal and professional experiences, translated through the twin prisms of myth and nature.






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