Shane Seely

Beaver Moon Sestina

Beaver Moon Sestina

All the rivers on the moon are dammed.Their labor done, the lunar raceof beavers, walking upright, cradling their childrenin their arms, return to homes they builtfrom native trees. They lounge along their ponds,their flat tails absorbing warmth from the vagrant sun.This is what, in 1835, the New York Sunreported: The Moon’s an Eden of naturally …

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