Pink Moon

Full Moon over Fitzroy
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Pink Moon, Egg Moon,
you bring snow
and crow complaining
from the spruce tree.
You bury the crocus.
You bend the trees down.
Grass Moon, Fish Moon,
harbinger of spring,
why are you so cold?

Apr. 20, 6:25 a.m. EDT — Full Pink Moon. The grass pink or wild ground phlox is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names were the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and — among coastal tribes — the Full Fish Moon, when the shad came upstream to spawn.

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[paisley]

and won't you freaking go away so that the summer moon what ever it may be called will gets its warm little buns over here... i am freezing and sick of hauling firewood!!!!!!