Message to Rabbit in the Moon

By Felicia Zamora

Ixchel, I feel you crossing. Night womb. Tell me where the seeds go. One seedless keeper to seed-full keeper. A lunar field of sunflowers sprouts from my chest. Both of us caught, in cycles not our own.

 

Image of rabbit in moon taken from Mesoamerican Codex Borgia.
Image taken from the Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl (Codex Borgia), Loubat 1898, Plate 71. (Courtesy of Ancient Americas at LACMA.)
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Issue: Fall 2025 / Volume 101/3
Published: February 12, 2026
Felicia Zamora

Felicia Zamora’s books include Murmuration Archives (Noemi, 2026), Interstitial Archaeology (Wisconsin UP, 2025), and I Always Carry My Bones (Iowa UP, 2021), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, the Boston Review, Orion...

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