The full moon spills
through a jalousie window,
and on our dusty sill
sits a framed photo of us
when we were better.
I am reminded
of all the moons past
and passing over our lives:
Wolf, Sturgeon, Harvest,
and with the arrival of spring
the frozen sweetness of trees
begins to melt, ready to be tapped.
Over us now,
the maple sugar moon,
and once again,
the weary wax and wane of time
is captured on a dusty sill
in a gilded framed photo
of when we were better.
Laurie Kuntz’s books are: That Infinite Roar, Gyroscope Press, Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books, The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press, Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press, Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press, and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press. Simple Gestures, won Texas Review’s Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won Blue Light Press’s Chapbook Contest. She’s been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net Prizes. In 2024, she won a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, Anti-Heroin Chic, and other journals. Happily retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind.
