Moon + Murder

Super Blue Moon tonight - the next one will occur in 2037

Somewhere behind the swath of gray you set offstage waiting for your finale moment. You know I’m down here. Slowly the shade of the sidewalk changes as the drips begin to connect. The natural world has forced a choice between the rain and you, the moon. Both cannot be enjoyed yet I cannot be disappointed at the rain. Maybe less of a choice and more of a moment between the three of us. Be here now with that the world gives us. Be here when the moon rises to greet us.

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All the things I’ve killed since buying a house:

• grass

• wasps

• slugs

• ants, so many ants

• flies, so many flies

• a tree, maybe multiple trees

• grape vines

• weeds

• A TV (repaired)

• a thermostat (replaced)

• rugs, probably 100 rugs

• caked paint between banister beams

• bamboo, so much bamboo