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Louella Lester's avatar

Awake with the Harvest Moon

Curtains aren’t able to hold back this light, but who needs sleep when shadows choose to waltz away with it?

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Sreemanti Sengupta's avatar

The first time

We kissed for the first time under the harvest moon. I remember you among the fallen leaves I raked today.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Six queens gazed at harvest moons. Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine, Catherine. Each moon waned; only one heir remained.

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KathrynK's avatar

Nicky on the Roof, Moongazing

Nicky watched moths masquerade as fireflies against the moon. Like his ex-girlfriend, it went away sometimes. Sometimes, it came back.

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Mileva Anastasiadou's avatar

If You Have to Go

leave after summer, when the moon is full and we're still bright, after we harvest love, before we fade away.

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Doug Jacquier's avatar

Harvest moon, we played at vampires. Until I noticed the ashen face and the blue lips and her unmoving chest.

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BettyJoyce Nash's avatar

good and scary . . .

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BettyJoyce Nash's avatar

The moon is a wrecking ball

rolling us flat, prostrate, already lying low under its gargantuan girth

praying for deliverance

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Anne Anthony's avatar

Under the Harvest Moon Mr. Tibbs Escapes

Disappearing into the heat of the night, Mom called him—Mr. Tibbs. Returning at dawn, as dogs do, all smiles.

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Dave Alcock's avatar

Jump Cut

You held up your hand and moonlight showed us the dripping, its outline streaming swiftly as you would later disappear.

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Angela Fitzpatrick's avatar

What Happens when Clifford and Euphemia Crump go to Bed at Sunset

Next door’s Billy climbs the fence to retrieve lost footballs and frisbees with the helpful glow of an autumnal equinox.

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June Rogers's avatar

Guilty

Red moon casts blood on my hands. He’s dead, but I didn't murder him. Still, I thought about it often.

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Cheryl Snell's avatar

The Sorrow of Broken Strings

The last time the harvest moon rose in the sky like a red balloon, you were alive to see it.

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Vicka Kharitonova's avatar

One Harvest moon.

Two countries.

Two lives.

Four eyes locked on the sky.

Two hearts.

Two stories.

One true love.

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BettyJoyce Nash's avatar

great structure

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Vicka Kharitonova's avatar

Thank you!!!

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Alicia Askenase's avatar

Strands of hay pursue bundled gold bales across a field as the Harvest Moon announces the return of August prophets.

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Mike Freveletti's avatar

HOW TO RECOGNIZE DAIRY PRODUCTS FROM QUITE A LONG WAY AWAY

The outer layer? Mmmm. Red Leicester, of course. The American flag up there is actually a cheese fork. Exquisitely aged.

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Our lunar sidekick masquerading as a source of guiding luminescence. What celestial switcheroo is next, Phoebus manifesting as toasted Edam?

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