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Clare McCotter

movanagher moon

low over movanagher wood this new year’s new moon is a mercury quill inscribing diamond distances in the blue baize between of day and other as I wonder if it is a prayer or a salutation that I offer as you offered monthly until your eighty-fifth year unobstructed by any glass

off the gravel path
the old man’s uplifted face
a white lunar psalm