Last night
I tied my kimono tight,
bound it with a red- silk rope–
impassioned lover’s hands
round a wasp- waist,
and kneeling upon a cushion,
awaited the rising of the Strawberry Moon.
—
Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2008, 2010
White Cranes of Heaven
Tags: "White Cranes of Heaven", poetry, Summer, the Strawberry Moon, untitled poem
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