My fur also rises.
I shake resolutely.
Insatiable, as shifting tides
yield to a Super Moon
bathing unabashedly
in a hammerhead bay in the Pacific.
Sister Moon is placid
as she slices through blackout curtains.
Until I witness her spirit here in the Northeast.
I am a wild thing,
and she is a flirt.
As she straddles
cool peaks and crags
I find myself drawn to her again.
I howl at her blood-red figure,
and gulp down the afterglow above.
2/3/26
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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