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Aquarius

incantation for the Aquarius moon May 4 2021

By Joe NastaPublished 3 years ago Updated about a year ago 1 min read
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the

moon’s

full

if

you

wanna

think

about love.

do

you

want

to?

to forget?

with me?

tonite?

I’ve

never

visited

a

glowing

place

so

dry

with

empty

cratered

lakes.

I’ve

heard

the

moonman

craves

a

body

from

the

ocean.

but

has

he

thought

of

diving?

letting

himself

be

swallowed?

do you want to?

I’d

take

you

out

on

the

Atlantic.

underneath

your

moon.

all

those

flickering

lights.

you

asked

me

if it

ever

scares

me,

and I lied.

I’ve

never

seen

the

way

the

tides

look

from

the

surface

of

the

moon.

you

said

that

we

should

think.

about love.

but

do

you

really

want

to?

forget?

with me?

tonite?

inspirational
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About the Creator

Joe Nasta

Hi! I'm a queer multimodal artist writing love poems in Seattle, one half of the art and poetry collective Eat Yr Manhood, and head curator of Stone Pacific Zine. Work in The Rumpus, Occulum, Peach Mag, dream boy book club, and others. :P

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