The moon is always female

Most poems prev. pub. in various periodicals.

Hand games. The lunar cycle

'The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games--poems of the first section--is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower fram, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships and mourning the death of friends. They speak of zucchini and oaks and cats, of jogging and writing, of nuclear power plants and suicide, of fat and of street hassling. The Lunar Cycle forms the second part. I first hear of the lunar calendar in childhood, when I asked why Passover falls on a different date every year and was answered that it falls on Nisan 14--the fourteenth day of the lunar month of Nisan. The next time I came across the moon-month was in reading Robert Graves in 1959 in search of the old goddess religions....'

Paperback