MAPPING THE CITY: DC Places, Part II Jody Bolz   MOONRISE OVER WASHINGTON —November 11, 2008 For half my life I’ve walked by this river late in the afternoon, evening coming on like a dream of home or a mirror in which failure, already dark, keeps darkening. Today, sycamores blaze behind half-bare oaks, box elders, and the water’s silver surface runs orange, then rose, then twilight blue. Twigs snap high on the hillside. I turn to see a stag turning to see me, and overhead—more astonishing— the full moon caught in branches. It’s five o’clock. Leaves sway and flare, gathering on the towpath— each shape distinct, each color— November’s moon lifting, now, above the treetops, the city, the reclaimable world.   Jody Bolz is the author of A Lesson in Narrative Time (Gihon Books) and editor of Poet Lore. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Poetry East, and several anthologies.   Published in Volume 11, Number 4, Fall 2010.   Read more by this author: Jody Bolz Jody Bolz: Wartime Issue Jody Bolz: Museum Issue