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2nd Place of 2024 Fall Poetry Contest: The Moon Is A Tease - Christian Heigler

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The moon doesn’t want to be photographed.

Can’t be photographed because her beauty

cannot be captured by man-made machines.

 

She must be captured by naked hands,

her likeness attempted with gentle chalk,

brazen charcoal, soft watercolors.

 

Her craters are invitations, doe-like

and admiring each and every one of us from afar.

We become voyeurs together.

 

Each month she performs a slow

strip-tease for us, mystifying us with

the spectacle of her fullness before she steals away.

 

She is overshadowed by the sun

because the sun is a jealous bitch.

 

But our modest queen with her waning and waxing stirs our imaginations like an elixir,

and her milky halo lights the way.

 

Christian Heigler is a lifelong Philadelphian. He is currently pursuing his MFA at Arcadia University. He is preoccupied with spaces where his Black and queer identities meet, but is a student of all forms. In his spare time he likes to cook, play video games badly, and spoil his fur son, Montgomery.

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