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wolf moon
the city lullabied..
Sunday savvy
--gillena cox

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year. Here is the Farmers Almanac’s list of the full Moon names.
• Full Wolf Moon – January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs
howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.

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Sunday Smiles

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-- Bill says
wolf moon
up and down the avenue
the howling wind

-- Adelaide says
Sunday afternoon
a week of rest
before the big game
I make plans of what to do
until next season


-- Doug says
wolf moon
these shadows in the snow
whiskers

Tree limbs, the whiskers?


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