Shadow Across The Moon

Moon,
            shining on the lake
gleaming under the headlights of the rusty Chevy
truck
            clamoring down the highway.
                        The lake ripples.
The rock eroding down the mountain surrenders.
            Pines circle,
                        water depends.
Another world.
                        Another life.
                                    A wolf steps into the open
giving itself to the shadow across the moon.

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Arianna LaChance, age 12
Shasta Bioregion Prize Winner (Honoring a San Francisco Bay Area Student)
San Anselmo, California
Greenwood School (Mill Valley)
Teacher: Devika Brandt