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‘a rising moon’ 

Catherine Skipper
By Catherine Skipper
Image: Catherine Skipper

a rising moon
smudged with cloud spill
wonders whether poets
will write odes to her now
she’s computer generated
imagery

risen and disconsolate
a pale paper face
floating above a sea
table flat and inky blue
she recalls Munch
nostalgically

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