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Julie L. Moore
Julie L. Moore is the author of four poetry collections, including, most recently, Full Worm Moon.
Mulberries
Flies swarm
over mulberries
mashed on the road,...
Washing my daughter’s hair
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. —Rainer Maria Rilke...
Before the rib
Before the rib,
before the man in need of help,...
Marram grass:
Indiana Dunes National Park
Indiana Dunes National Park
I know what you’ve heard:
Build on rock, so when rain
pours down, you will not fall....
Full flower moon
The moon tonight smells like linen,
clean & pressed, spreading
its blue fabric over not just May’s fields...
The philosopher and the poet talk on the last warm day in fall
My neighbor scrapes old paintfrom the fence around his pasture,an annual chore he attends to,for he knows the white he appliesrevives each slat....
Full Worm Moon
Sap Moon, Crust Moon, Crow Moon—by any of its names, this moonannounces, in all its fullness, wormsstirring in earth’s softening center;sap thawing in the maples;...
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Blood Moon
Beneath this April’s full moon,an inch of snow fell, eclipsingdaffodils and tulips, their buddinggenius. Cherry blossoms wearwhite gowns now, shivering...
When the rain clears
Standing on the streetin the early morning of late autumn,
I marvel to see, to my left,over my own backyard, rain...
What we heard on Christmas Day
Silence like early morning, like indigoDeepening at the bottom of the sea.For hundreds of years.No voice to say this is the way....