Wright, Carolyne

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Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991) Volume 3 Issue 1 Syracuse Scholar Spring 1982 Article 7 1982 Woman and Luna Moth in a Telephone Booth: Late Evening Carolyne Wright Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/suscholar  Part of the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Wright, Carolyne (1982) "Woman and Luna Moth in a Telephone Booth: Late Evening," Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991): Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 7. Available at: https://surface.syr.edu/suscholar/vol3/iss1/7 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991) by an authorized editor of SURFACE. For more information, please contact surface@syr.edu. 26---SYRACUSE n-IOIAR Woman and Utna Moth in a Telephone Booth: Photo by Ruth Putter Late Evening The eyes on the wings stare back at her, dark-ringed, haunting as the kohl-rimmed eyes of young wives in the Coptic mummy portraits. She has come here to make a call to a part of her life that may no longer answer. The moth clings with its furred legs to the burn-scored edge of the telephone table, its wings brittle, two flakes of parchment. Carolyne Wright received the doctor of She is trying to compose a message arts in creative writing from Syracuse that contains as much of the truth University in 1977. She has been awarded many poetry prizes and fellow- as she knows. ships, and has published poems and translations from the Spanish in numerous journals. Her poetry Perhaps the green booth light collections include StealinR the Children echoes the shadows under spring leaves, and ReturninR What We Owed; soon to be published is Premonitions of an the green bark to which it clung, Uneasy Guest (Hardin-Simmons a pupa stirring in a loosening cocoon. University Press). Dr. Wright has taught at the University of Washington, Syracuse University, and St. Lawrence She swallows; she drops a dime in the slot. University. It clattered into the coin box. The moth shudders for the first time. Its elaborate antennae fan the air, scanning for signals in a code so ancient only it can comprehend them. The voice at the other end of the line wants her again, agrees with anything, anything she says ... The moon regards her through the smudged glass. It is not astonished. The moth grips the table's edge and trembles . -Carolyne Wright 1Wright: Woman and Luna Moth in a Telephone Booth: Late EveningPublished by SURFACE, 1982

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