In October, We Count Our Losses. For the Birds -- Another Stilled Thing -- Deconstructing the Moon -- What He Saw -- Alas -- All Hallows -- To Name the Moon -- For Boo -- Super Moon -- A Corner of the Moon -- Missing Wakayama -- Serendipity -- Tangled in Time -- The Blue Heron, Fishing -- Reading Basho by Fernlight -- Heliotrope -- Zinnias -- A Story: Twelve Moments Tangled in Time -- The Hourglass -- Secret -- On the Stairway -- Away -- Someday the Sycamores -- Beside Spring Creek -- The Old Heron, Rising -- After Flushing His First Muskrat -- "Memory is the thing you forget with." -- Unwatched -- Gossip -- What the Wind Wants to Know -- Locking the Door -- Blessing -- Now and Again -- Summer Apples -- Now, and Again -- The Apricot and the Moon -- How Words Become Things -- Of Course -- Cooking Soba in Ohio -- Enroute to Osaka -- October, in the Workshop -- Anniversary -- The Carving Ritual -- Halloween -- Three Mastiffs -- Raking Leaves -- In October, We Count Our Losses.
Summary:
"The Apricot and the Moon is a collection of mostly narrative poems that discuss the relationships between language, art, nature and time. The manuscript moves from existential questions, to personal reflections, and on to a bit of whimsy, because obviously poets do not have all the answers. Using the moon as a talisman and a touchstone, Essinger writes about the known world--the intimacy of nature, the wisdom of the skies--and then moves on to the wonder of the unknown and how it is illuminated in our lives"-- Provided by publisher.
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