The moon makes its own plea / poems by Wendy Mnookin.

A Short Fable of the Year Before Last
Morning, with Cat
My Day
Was It Ever As Good As It Was?
Reef
Partial Praise for Tropics
Anything Warm
Second Thoughts
Rental
Biking Through Haze
Coyotes
Small Failure
Ongoing
Sailing at Summer Camp
Bringing the Flowers Inside
French Cafe
August
At Sea
The Way Back
Skating
Spill
Makeshift
Thanksgiving
Maybe I Made This Up
My Sister, My Childhood Ally
Manhattan, 1952
Other People I Could Have Been
First Marriage
Pregnant Woman on the Beach
And This Is Just the Beginning
The Shortest Day of the Year
After Thirty Years
Part of a Longer List
Something
The River Scrapes Against Night
Hammered Band with Tapered Edges
Hard-Backed Chair
From My Window
On Her Knees
First They're Mad
Holding Something Back
Flax
Blue
When Three Stars Can Be Seen in the Sky
Measured Spaces
Done with It
A Pond of Peaches
Big Dipper
Not a Spider
The Moon Makes Its Own Plea
And So I Decide to Study Hebrew After All
The Weatherman on TV
Respite
Tricks of Color and Light.