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THE CONFIGURATION OF BODIES IN A LUNAR ECLIPSE From our bedroom window, Tucked beneath the tent of the eaves, We watched the wafer of the full moon As it vanished among the trees— A shadow thrown out upon the sky, You remembered, as though space Were fabric after all, whole cloth The stars burned through. Lying on your belly beside me, Your buttocks curved down toward Your own dark cloud and crescent Of night-filled flesh, your thighs Were bathed with moonlight, And the slant blades of your back. Above us, that pale stone grew more And more slender, the trilled pulses Of tree frogs rising into the night. When you slid into place upon me, I could feel the distances tighten And their longing to become spheres 20 ...

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