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Martha Meltzer <br />4920 Blackbird Wav <br />Pleasanton, Ca 945(6 <br />m.meltzer! i comcast.net <br />Man in the Moon <br />In the moments before dawn <br />«,~hen air is still and darkness thick <br />she awakes to the sound of the moon <br />whistling an old love song <br />Bare feet skim cold wooden floors <br />Iler nightshirt's hem sways in heartbeats rhyme <br />as she opens the window wide <br />Flooding the room with ancient sighs of sod and heather <br />and the impious greeting of winter solstice <br />she rests her trembling hand against the window ledge <br />and gazes up at the lustrous moon <br />White and pure casting magic enchantment <br />it hangs in the winter sky <br />She sees neither curse nor crater <br />only his face shimmering down on her. <br />