I Watched You Disappear by Anya Krugovoy Silver

Author:Anya Krugovoy Silver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Perigee Moon, Loose Tooth

It’s been eighteen years since the full moon

shone this brilliant, since its orbit

brought it wobbling so close to earth.

The perigee moon, ivory of dogwood

blossoms, following its egg-shaped path,

ancient celestial tortoise, unwavering.

In nineteen ninety-three, I was twenty-four,

and moony-eyed about the man I’d marry soon.

Now our son’s lost his first front tooth—

the five-dollar tooth—his tongue busy

wiggling the second to pay day.

In eighteen years, he’ll be twenty-four.

Our lives, as tide drawn as lunar dust.

I’m peering into his vaulted mouth,

as though I might read there his zodiac

of canines, incisors, the six-year molars

grinding through his gums.

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