Unspoken
One-line poem
Published in
Feb 21, 2021
And the moon rose — red,
blood red,
signifying the sins
that were about to unfold.
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) wants to thank Nyaalo Mia for this week’s prompt: Sin. The first line of this poem is from Timothy Findley’s novel, The Wars. We spent no less than 3 classes discussing that em-dash, and what a blood-red moon symbolized:
They were on the road to Magdalene Wood by 1am. This was when the moon rose — red.
