Moonborn

Aura Guerra-Artola

I am the Moon’s daughter.

Forever shifting rooms

within the skin I call home.

My light has crossed the tides,

so have my shadows.

I leave pieces—

memory like bark,

fallen

between full and hollow.

I lay in the hands of the earth

what in mine has completed

its cycle—

in case she wills

that it might bloom anew

for someone else.

More from Aura Guerra-Artola ↓

• @g.a.aura on Instagram
• Her book, How to Live with a Cat on Your Chest and a Whale in Your Heart, is out now