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Lunar Effect

Selene’s straying saneness, her hit-or-miss wits
Like Gemini, Janus, inversing her fits

At times gibbous glooming, a crescent depressed
Then full, frenzied fuming, ecliptic at best

Her phases are frantic, they shift with the week
Ablaze and bacchantic, forgive her she’s Greek

Her far side has phantoms librations lay bare,
Their terrible tantrums like faculae flare

These loony lunations quite plausibly nursed
Enacting enations of maria cursed

Who’s mauled Mama Quilla? We’ll ward off the wight
Abort the armilla, pour noise into night

Synodic synapses, might never align
Agnatical axes, their retrograde cline

Some Sirius sunrays, scorched sinner in heat
Left drowning in dog days, engorged on the wheat

Hibernal hysterics, illusory ease,
Caprice climacterics by tropic degrees

The Pleiades pleading, yet no word from Mars
Or deities deeding their place in the stars

This waxing and waning, its artful suspense
Though taxing, retaining some semblance of sense

A monthly malignance, the apogee nears
She’s forfeiting figments, through sobering tears
Cat Viscito
​medium: poetry, photography
A series of poetic musings on the relationship between the moon and hysteria (especially in women), both etymologically and pseudo-scientifically. The accompanying photo is from the Super Blue Blood Moon of January 2018.

Cat Viscito is a writer and film enthusiast who's just a little too fond of Greek myth.
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