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PasswordsVolume 12 | Issue 2 Article 96-4-2012An Old Moon and a New MoonTessa Jacobstesskjacobs@yahoo.comFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/passwordsPart of the Creative Writing CommonsThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Claremont at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion inPasswords by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu.Recommended CitationJacobs, Tessa (2012) "An Old Moon and a New Moon," Passwords: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 9. DOI: 10.5642/passwrd.20121202.9Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/passwords/vol12/iss2/9PASSWORDS19An Old Moon and a New MoonTessa JacobsThis poem is a conversation with a piece of poetry found in the Kojiki (711 a.d) which deals with the adventures of Yamato the Brave. A translation of the original text is quoted within.Dressless as I was the moon rose on the white hem of my thighsOn the white cotton of the sheetsA woman in indignation once told her man: As the years one by one pass by  The moons also one by one elapse It is no wonder that while waiting in vain for you On the cloak I am wearing the moon should riseI in indignation can only thinkThe years passed by but I am young in waysI wear my innocence like a cloak that I cannot take off Did you really think that when stumbling toward you in the darkThe moon would not rise, guilty, over us both?

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Volume 12 | Issue 2 Article 9
6-4-2012
An Old Moon and a New Moon
Tessa Jacobs
tesskjacobs@yahoo.com
Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/passwords
Part of the Creative Writing Commons
This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Claremont at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in
Passwords by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu.
Recommended Citation
Jacobs, Tessa (2012) "An Old Moon and a New Moon," Passwords: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 9. DOI: 10.5642/passwrd.20121202.9
Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/passwords/vol12/iss2/9
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An Old Moon and a New Moon
Tessa Jacobs
This poem is a conversation with a piece of poetry found in the Kojiki (711 a.d) 
which deals with the adventures of Yamato the Brave. A translation of the 
original text is quoted within.
Dressless as I was the moon rose on the white hem of my thighs
On the white cotton of the sheets
A woman in indignation once told her man:
 As the years one by one pass by 
 The moons also one by one elapse
 It is no wonder that while waiting in vain for you
 On the cloak I am wearing the moon should rise
I in indignation can only think
The years passed by but I am young in ways
I wear my innocence like a cloak that I cannot take off 
Did you really think that when stumbling toward you in the dark
The moon would not rise, guilty, over us both?


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