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"August Moon."

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This moon forming
round on its left side.

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Waxing moon of my birth month.

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No astrology in this.

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Simply recording the
passage of a moon.

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The passing month passing
a year in my life.

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I discover I was born
113 years to the hour

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after the death
of William Blake.

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A poet I admire, friends tell
me, for all the wrong reasons.

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The moon rising in the
East, red at first,

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now yellow, soon white will
circle the sky to the South

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while I sleep.

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It will move at a height of 10
o'clock and fade in morning.

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October.

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The moon rises.

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And I am in Moscow.

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31 years old 31 times
as the earth tilts

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to the tropic and returns.

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31 circles of a silent moon
saying snake, woman, fire,

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thief, moon.

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