The Glass Moon

Moonlight 
caught up in all the layers 
of the atmosphere
and
filtered by glass,
colorless,
resting on the backs of my hands.
We once would have
been out in this moonlight,
bathing in it,
our eyes adjusted to the dark,
our hands warmed by fires,
and I feel nostalgic
for those moments
that my ancestors probably lived
for most of history,
and probably longer, 
stretching back
through layers of moonlight;
back to the animals we were before.

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I’m the author of four environmental and science fiction novels: Call of the Sun Child, Listen, The Seas of Distant Stars, and Blue Mar.

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