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Howl
I howled at the moon and she
let out a shrill, screeching shriek.
I howled at the moon, empty
and she cackled back, calling me
to the catwalk, to the
construction zone. I referenced
the ocean and she whispered
something about wavelengths.
In unison, we beamed.
We met outside at the dingy yellow
cranes, the piles they slide, shift and
pack, saw the mortar, stacks and cracks
and shadows from the virgin wall:
a portrait of love as whiskey sips
and kisses where shined faces retain
traces from before she said
the word: tainted.
We squeeze and shift and slide and
creep through cracks like beams of
sunlight. Bend our necks and break
our ribs, ripping quickened
distance when we feel we need
to breathe. I howled at the moon,
and she let out a sigh of relief.
I fade into shadowed blues,
refract with the glimpses of a
changing city. Escape the gloaming,
dawning, rise, the swell.
I howled at the moon.
She yelled.
I howled to the moon and told that
I was tired. She shot me with
her bow. I fell from the packed
soil precipice, unaware until I
bounced off the sun, into fire.
Burning, I howled to the moon.
She smiled and said, “Glow;
glow brighter.”
Gabriella Muglia, 2012