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Strawberry Moon: Poems

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Strawberry Moon: Poems

A selection of poems for tonight's full moon

Maya C. Popa
Jun 3, 2023
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Dear Friends,

Tonight’s full moon is the Strawberry Moon (how delightful!), so named by the Algonquin tribes to mark the peak of ripening strawberries in the northeastern U.S.

"The moon is the very image of silence,” writes Mary Ruefle. “Stars were the first text, the first instance of gabbiness; connecting the stars, making a pattern out of them was the …

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