Two moons, two moons reflected in the rippled glass\u2014
two moons, different phases of the same, one looking to,
and one away. Two moons and I am in love with their common light again. Two moons like formal tea partners, and I can almost hear them talking, oh the gossipy stars can fill the night’s parlor with such a clamor, like background
radiation, like the harsh whisper of atoms churning
billions of light years from here\u2026 Oh why do we listen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am caught in the gravity of two moons, one dressing
in night, the other baring its alabaster skin\u2014how I know
it is an illusion, how I know there is only one lonely satellite
passing over, passing by. But to think of the possibilities
of living on a different planet with twin bodies orbiting,
a place much less abandoned than this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two moons, two moons reflected in the rippled glass\u2014two moons, different phases of the same, one looking to,and one away. Two moons and I am in love with their common light again. Two moons like formal tea partners, and I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
J. P. Dancing Bear<\/strong> is editor for the American Poetry Journal<\/em> and Dream Horse Press. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, Cephalopodic <\/em>(Glass Lyre Press, 2015), and Love is a Burning Building<\/em> (FutureCycle Press, 2014). His work has appeared or will shortly in American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM<\/em> and elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"