{"id":5849,"date":"2025-12-01T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=5849"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:02:51","slug":"full-moon-over-i-40","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/fall-2025-digital-lit\/full-moon-over-i-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon Over I-40 \u2014 Ty Zhang \u2014 Fall 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"PAIRED

PAIRED by BEE LB<\/p><\/div>\n

Full Moon Over I-40<\/h1>\n

Ty Zhang<\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
“I venture no more than a low whisper,<\/span><\/i>
\nafraid I’ll wake the people of heaven.”<\/span><\/i>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Li Bai<\/span><\/i><\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

Suspended in clear night,
\nt<\/span>he full moon bleeds
\n<\/span>over the cracked highway.
\n<\/span>The self-soothing asphalt drinks its fill\u00a0<\/span>
\nof light,<\/span>
\nscorned in some places by blistering, demeaning<\/span>
\nfluorescence\u2013a cruder source.<\/span><\/p>\n

You glimpsed the truth,<\/span>
\nyou think,<\/span>
\nat least part of it,<\/span>
\nsitting at work today\u2013<\/span>
\nthrough a window and a door<\/span>
\n<\/span>you never open,<\/span>
\n<\/span>inside the shadow of a tree<\/span>
\nthat flickered and swayed<\/span>
\nover the body of another,<\/span>
\nthen bloated, then joined<\/span>
\nthe sum of dusk.<\/span><\/p>\n

In three exits,<\/span>
\nyou’ll be home.<\/span>
\nYou know what awaits<\/span>
\nin the kitchen, by the shoes.<\/span>
\nThe pale strength of the moon\u00a0<\/span>
\nhas roused your old and dying pains.<\/span>
\nThey’re there now, lined up\u00a0<\/span>
\none by one,<\/span>
\nA row of shy, smoldering fires<\/span>
\nasking for your forgiving arms<\/span>
\nto rock them back to sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

“What kind of clouds are those?”<\/span>
\nshe asked you once, long ago<\/span>
\nand a country away.<\/span>
\n“No kind,” you whisper now,<\/span>
\nas the steering wheel languishes<\/span>
\nin your tightening grip.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

Ty Zhang<\/b> (he\/him) is a lawyer, poet, and political organizer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work has recently appeared in <\/span>Assignment Literary Magazine<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Progenitor Art & Literary Journal<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Meniscus<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

BEE LB<\/b> is an array of letters, bound to impulse; a writer creating delicate connections. they have called any number of places home; currently, the space beneath a collapsed ceiling on unceded Anishinaabe land in Michigan. they have been published in <\/span>FOLIO<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Figure 1<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Offing<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Harpur Palate<\/span><\/i>, among others. their portfolio can be found at <\/span>twinbrights.carrd.co<\/span><\/a> and they can be found at <\/span>patreon.com\/twinbrights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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