Waiting for the Nightingale Retta R. Evans Everyone's Gone to the Moon

Everyone's Gone to the Moon is a week-by-week journey through July 1969

They've never heard of Christmas

Tommy Matchick's magical ninth-inning home run

probes flying beyond our solar system

Waiting for the Nightingale Retta R. Evans Everyone's Gone to the MoonMiles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused as lovers tend to be by the inconstant nature of the other. In this, his second book of poems, published half a century after the first (A Vultures Egg, 1966), he is also aware, merrily for the most part, of mortality. Eros and Thanatos tap at his funny bone. Does God exist? he asks. Will the nightingale, the one right nightingale, sing? The landscapes of these poems are drawn from the Far East, New