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Self-Portrait as Moon Clichés

SWWIM Every Day
by Anne Graue

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!

Some say I am Artemis the Huntress
and I wax like a candle dipped over and over

and I wane until I disappear. I pull the oceans
toward me and then push them away. I am cold

and dark in shadow and almost transparent
by day. I bring scores of children and make wolves

howl at midnight. Full, I am wise. Quartered, I am
nearly empty. Halved, I am ambiguous. When I am

crescent, I am nearly new, ready to be filled.

Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Find her poetry in Sundress Publications Best Dressed Blog, Verse Daily, Poet Lore, SWWIM Every Day, Spoon River Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Unbroken Journal, and River Heron Review. Her work appears in anthologies, including Blood and Roses: An Anthology in Honor of Aphrodite and Coffee Poems. Her book reviews have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and The Rumpus. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.

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