Falcon, on those headline tags-- I'm with you . . . I guess someone at Slate thinks that the how-to interrogative is cool, or urgent, or stylish, or something. Imagine writing these little introductions, then waiting to see what the headline will be.

David Gewanter, yes thanks for this distinction between the monologue and the conversation poem . . . and an account of all that is going on with that hollow-shell-moon.