Murrin-von Ebers, Dave

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Exile Volume 52 Number 2 Article 24 2017 She whispered to the moon Dave Murrin-von Ebers Denison University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Murrin-von Ebers, Dave (2017) "She whispered to the moon," Exile: Vol. 52 : No. 2 , Article 24. Available at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile/vol52/iss2/24 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Denison Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Exile by an authorized editor of Denison Digital Commons. 25 exile She whispered to the moon H er long hair st.ill dark, and her face gray, he walks. Bare fee t sliding pa t broken twig a nd fall en pine needles uni.ii the trees d rop away, leaving her with the river and the bouncing moon in the current. There arc wolves in the fo rest Behind her, but their howl have lopped. There are eel in the river, but none graze her toe , which almly let th e current pull a t them with the cold. She listens to a tree frog agai nst the consta nt screech of cicadas, and remembers how cruel the sound was when she was eight. when the only thing that broke ll1e pulsaling whine of ll1e ummer was the of a bottle against tJ1 e \ all. And as the brown glass shattered, she walked. ljding past fallen shard unlil ll1e door closed behiJ1d her and her father's voice gave way to the cicadas. call out crack Ba re fee t Dave J\l unin-von Ebers, 'O 7 

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