Caelyn Snyder recently posted her poetic duel with Hannah R. I for one am glad to see the practice re-explored, and if you haven’t read them, please do check them out. (I’m more of a night owl myself).

For ours below, Nik got things going with his ode to the moon, in which I responded in kind. I don’t want to speak too much to either and let you read them for yourself, but I did want to mention that I quite enjoyed how differently these came out—both in terms of each other’s, and in terms of Caelyn’s and Hannah’s. Sometimes the moon is its own antithesis.

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