A fortnight between lunar to solar,<\/p>\n
the moon leading the charge, ironically,<\/p>\n
since she, stoic, obedient, seemingly lifeless,<\/p>\n
bleeds light from her partner’s ebullience.<\/p>\n
Rarely do they two-step, lunar, solar, lunar,<\/p>\n
except for now, in this epic moment.<\/p>\n
Each semester, the six months’ separation of moon<\/p>\n
to sun, lunar to solar, a new batch of eager students arrive,<\/p>\n
like mouth-bitten peaches and blood oranges, the<\/p>\n
sun, moon, and stars, embarrassed by the shady passing,<\/p>\n
imperfect spheres of silent angst, expressionless moons,<\/p>\n
and blistering gas balls of energetic suns,<\/p>\n
and sit in scruffy rows among creaking computer carousels.<\/p>\n
But today, as the moon leapfrogs the sun,<\/p>\n
sobering the gleeful optimism of a new beginning,<\/p>\n
anticipating the new school year, in the season of death,<\/p>\n
stars falling from the sky landing in my cyber classroom.<\/p>\n
This short summer of pandemic zooms, eclipse all<\/p>\n
the twenty years of semesters spent in dusty classrooms,<\/p>\n
pacing the moldy carpets in the institutional cement,<\/p>\n
encasing the recycled dreams<\/p>\n
and air<\/p>\n
of generations<\/p>\n
of what-if’s<\/p>\n
and coughs<\/p>\n
and viruses,<\/p>\n
now casting<\/p>\n
blackness<\/p>\n
over us<\/p>\n
the cosmos<\/p>\n
we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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