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Moon Crumbs
When both mind and body are in trauma, where do we go?
Daytime rot was lost from her as long as she ate the celestial night prey
Insightful Vulture had advised her so to keep the vicious pain at bay
So she sipped the night sky from the pond where stars swam with the fish
Though only muddy water and hints of stardust touched her mortal lips
Resolute to shun the day, she reeled in, with only twig and spiderweb,
Abundant moon with the still face of her beloved grandmother, light ebbed
Crying, she spent months ravenously eating, dressed in luminous crumbs,
‘Til she could no longer and then last of grandmother moon smiled like sun
“I love you. You’re ready. It is time to break. You are not alone. I got you”.
Opulent daylight broke through night with inevitable surety of rising anew
“Nurse! Nurse! Her eyes! Get the doctor! Please God, who did this to you—”
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R.C. Taylor
I write to invoke, to process, to honor, to resurrect, and—sometimes—to grieve but, above all, I write to be free.
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Comments (25)
Your work is so different.
Congratulations! I ended reading craving a continuation…
Whoaaaaaaa! 🤯❤️👏. Congratulations! This is amazing work!
Beautifully done. Congratulations!
Wow! Congratulations!
Congratulations on being a Runner-up!!!!
Literally stuck in a loop of reading this. Cannot get over how gorgeously you write. Sublime work. 🤯🤩
i love this
This is so beautiful and immersive - I love your style!
Very well deserved top story! I was entranced by every word xx
"Opulent daylight broke through night with inevitable surety of rising anew" This line beautifully captures the contrasting imagery of the opulent daylight breaking through the darkness of night. Congrats on Top story!!!👏🙌💕
My, my, MY that was powerful! Wowed!!!
Oh goodness, this felt like such a roller coaster of a journey. Fantastic work! And that ending, wow. Congratulations on Top Story!
Well done
Very nicely done. Congrats on the TS
Greatness Wrote Inside a Poem and Congratulations on your Top Story🎉🎉🎉🎉
I keep reading it over & over 🥲🥲😭this is spool good! Congratulations 🎉 on top story
Such a deep poem. One would not know it was an acrostic except for those of us who also entered. I love how you weave dialogue in to intersect the rhyming stream of consciouness. Congratulations on Top Story!
This one really held my attention. Such vivid writing. Well done and congrats on the Top Story.
Heart wrenching and was so real. Truly how the mind can escape during severe trauma
This gave me chills! Outstanding poetry, beautiful flow, this is incredible!
Wow. Wow. That last line. Well done and well deserved top story
The last line gave me goosebumps.
This was great! I loved the surreal imagery that just bordered on dreamlike incoherence. The last line was positively heartbreaking. Brilliant.
Oh, this one is so unique! It made no sense until the final line. Lovely waking from a dream!