Colleen J. McElroy is a professor emerita of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of several poetry collections, including Traveling Music.
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Contents
PART I
Pillow Book
Mother Love
Catching Gar
I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
Anniversary
Most Wanted
Sleeping with the Moon
Codex: Frostbite
Codex: Diagnosis
Drawing a Line in the Sand
Chilblains
Blues for Spring
In Praise of Older Women
PART II
You and Me and Veronica Lake
First Date after Fifty
The Company She Keeps
Love Letters
Boys Will Be
Lust
Blinded by the Moon
Remarks Beneath the Visiting Moon
Tango Moon
Heartbreak Moon on the Strait of Juan de Fuca
In the Blind Eye of Love's Shiny Moon
The Year I Found Myself Under Two Blue Moons
The Vixen Speaks to the Last Full Moon of the Century
PART III
Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
Duty
Electra
Bad Slam Broadway
Teaching G.I.s to Dance
What I Wish for when I Bother to Wish at All
Photolinen: La Push Beach
Heartache: Things to Watch for
Blues for the Slimes House
Light Reflecting Glass in the Evelyn Room
Telling Lies
Reckless Divas
Travelling Moon
Ballad for the Blue Moon Tavern
PART IV
Mae West Chats It Up with Bessie Smith
What Happened to the Rabbit
The Moon in the Dragon's Mouth
Wonder Woman
Fairy Tales
The Princess
Unlearning the Brothers Grimm
Eartha Takes the Old Woman Shopping for Red Shoes
Song of the Red Kimono
Last Dance for the Copper Room Hot Springs Band
Vienna Layover
Moon Over Turtle Island
Moon Over Marakesh
Loving this Earth
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