Wendy Mnookin

edited by Sarah Glaz and Joanne Growney. AK Peters, 2008. Includes my poem "Math."

ROUGH PLACES PLAIN: POEMS OF THE MOUNTAINS, edited by Margot Wizansky. Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2005. Includes my poems "Stone" and "Grand Canyon."

MERCY OF TIDES: POEMS FOR A BEACH HOUSE, edited by Margot Wizansky. Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2003. Includes my poem "Summer Rental."

edited by Ginny Lowe Connors. Grayson Books, 2003. Includes my poem "Country Music."

edited by Ginny Lowe Connors. Grayson Books, 2000. Includes my poems "Spring Training" and "Water Walk."

edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Milkweed Editions, 2000. Includes my poem "Signs."

edited by Pamela Gemin and Paula Sergi. University of Iowa Press, 1999. Includes my poems "Naming" and "Polio Summer."

edited by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. Garland Publishing, 1999. Includes five of my Guenever poems.

edited by Alan Lupack. Garland Publishing, 1992. Includes my poem "Guenever Speaks."

"Naming"

born at the end
of the Second World War

I was not named
for a great-aunt in Russia

or a grandmother
baking challan in Brooklyn

but for Peter Pan's
Wendy Darling

who flew away
to Neverland

by thinking only lovely
wonderful thoughts

"Signs"

Spring, and all over town
signs appear
on trees, on telephone poles,
written by hand, or in 14-point bold font.
LOST! 4-YEAR-OLD LAB!
HAVE YOU SEEN OUR SPANIEL?
And the pictures, grainy, off-center,
with tear-off strips at the bottom,
phone numbers kneeling.

I want to round up all the missing
from the woods behind O'Donnell's Store,
the boarded-up buildings on E Street,
wherever it is they go.
And why have they abandoned
their rugs, their bowls?

FOUND:
YOUNG BEAGLE, MALE. PLEASE CALL--

Sometimes it happens
that way.