another bloody birthday

 

 

 

This poem was born September 27, 2015, on the day of a blood moon (i.e. a rare total lunar eclipse).

There was also a blood moon in November 1928.

 

blood moon birth day

a poem by punkie

 

born the second of your

mother’s three daughters

you are the one who howled

her way into this world on

a crisp autumn ‘day like

today’ in 1928

 

you were named for her

and her mother before her

and her mother’s mother and

maybe more in a long line

of hale Marys of which

i am the last

 

fiery red hair matched

your cat-green eyes and

fetchingly crooked teeth

to endear suitors and soul

sisters alike in the full

party of your life

 

straight lines elude you but

you still sing million of songs

though much of your mind

is gone in dementia off

and on and in which

i am the lost

 

tonight you are the one

for whom a bloody moon

eclipses the birth of an 88^th year

and signs the time of auspicious

finds or promises a harvest

that comes far too soon

 

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