Luna Moth
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Come a hundred milesacross the Appalachians,it follows some creek of scentno wider than my hand.On an upwind stumpmiles out Cranesnest,a female clings to barkshards,pulsing her perfume.
Tonight,something inside mewants to fly,wants to turn into the wind,my body as light as a star,my wings like the clavicles of ghosts,lifting, lifting. [End Page 15]
Richard Hague's prose has appeared in his collections Milltown Natural: Essays & Stories From a Life; Learning How: Stories, Yarns, & Tales; and Lives of the Poem: Community & Connection in a Writing Life, as well as in Creative Nonfiction, Appalachian Journal, Now & Then, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and several anthologies. He received the 2012 Weatherford Award in Poetry. He lives, writes, and operates a small urban farm in Cincinnati. His poem "Luna Moth" originally appeared in the Fall 1990 issue of Appalachian Heritage.
