8<\/span><\/p>\n Morning mist kisses shore, dreams skittering in and out until the sun from the gray and the day, *<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n *<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n STURGEON MOON<\/strong><\/p>\n 8<\/span><\/p>\n The August supermoon grandmother brought back wax paper, our faces and beaming her great *<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n AUBADE 8 Morning mist kissesthe slow wakening\u00a0 shore, dreams skitteringwet sand, flittering in and outof sea murmur until the sunbounces itself up from the graystoop of horizon and the day,aroused, kisses back. * * STURGEON MOON 8 The August supermoonis the Sturgeon Moonnamed by the Algonquinsafter the fish grandmother brought backfrom her monthly foraysinto New [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[500],"class_list":["post-14414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-sunset-on-the-passaic-by-george-inness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14435,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions\/14435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
the slow wakening\u00a0<\/p>\n
wet sand, flittering<\/p>\n
of sea murmur<\/p>\n
bounces itself up<\/p>\n
stoop of horizon<\/p>\n
aroused, kisses back.<\/p>\n
\n
is the Sturgeon Moon
named by the Algonquins
after the fish<\/p>\n
from her monthly forays
into New York, thin slices
of white flesh packed in<\/p>\n
eager as Gibbous moons
as she tore small pieces
off the first exposed slice<\/p>\n
smile, handed them to us
a kind of piscine sacrament –
succulent, tender and ethereal<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TMHnn-head-shot-Paul-Genega-crop-bw-2014-04-23-0761-BlmfldCollg-copy.jpg\")
Paul Genega has published six full-length collections, including\u00a0Outtakes: New and Selected Poems<\/i>\u00a0from Salmon Poetry in 2023. His work has appeared most recently in\u00a0This Broken Shore\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Orbis\u00a0<\/i>(UK). His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the \u201cDiscovery\u201d Award.<\/div>\n