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LATITUDES, 3rd EDITION

Poetry

Crescent Moon
By Diane Revell

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Aimed skyward, filled with earthshine
Aimed down a scimitar, slices the dark
Faint hope fades with advancing night
No return of love’s light to my door,
 
Sound of gunfire grips my heart
Dread transforms to despair
Phone call for my reaction
To news I had not heard before,

Moon has set, yet no son arrives,
On the desk, yesterday’s homework haunts
His backpack awaits remaining empty -
 
     Forever a memorial.
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