Born in September
Poetry
cloud crab swallows
full moon
on second thought
drifting south
spits it out
on my lawn
dew finds
full moon a tasty silver morsel
its full light
in drops splinters
at my feet
anonymous spider stirs
pre-dawn air
ur-arachnid spins
full moon
webbed for an instant
waning commences
a coincidence
I step outside
to ingest the moment
full harvest
as day consumes night
sun eats inspiration
full-moon
alive
Karla Linn Merrifield has had 900+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies, with 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the newly released full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY).