Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “So Many Moons” by Nancy Issenman, part of the 2025 Poem in Your Pocket Day collection.

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So Many Moons

By Nancy Issenman

Another moon and another.

So many moons, my grandson says,

pointing through the darkened glass,

seeing every bright streetlight

as a moon. And why not,

why not a moon on every corner

a sun in every window

a whole universe of light

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Copyright © Nancy Issenman

Published as part of the 2025 Poem in Your Pocket Day collection

Nancy Issenman is a Jewish, queer writer and artist living on unceded Lekwungen territory, aka Victoria, BC. Nancy has published a chapbook, The Name of Yes, and her poems have appeared or will appear in various publications: Room Magazine, Lilac Arch Press, Sea and Cedar Magazine, Scrivener Creative Review. Her story was published in don’t tell: family secrets (Demeter Press.) A plaque with one of her poems is installed in Alta Lake Park, Whistler BC, after winning the Whistler Poetry Pause prize, 2024.

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