Jane Muschenetz

Power Point
by Jane Muschenetz

 A portion of the book’s proceeds is donated by the author to organizations supporting women, girls, and gender equality.

MIT alum and former Bain & Co Management Consultant, Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz arrived in the US as a Jewish child refugee from Soviet Ukraine. She earned her BA in Political Science from UCSD, her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Business, and learned (via extensive on-the-job-training) to mother two “mostly American” kids – never once considering how much this education would aid her in the writing of poetry. Recognized in 2023 by San Diego County for excellence in poetry performance, Jane has appeared on KPBS Midday Edition and in numerous publications. Her debut collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay Books, 2023), is the 2024 San Diego Writers Festival Poetry Collection of the Year and a Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Book. An emerging writer and artist, Jane won The Good Life Review Honeybee Poetry Prize in 2022. Connect with Jane and more of her work online at www.PalmFrondZoo.com.

The Moon in Autumn

She was a silver, sometimes sickly-pale thing in winter,
transparent as a new-born cry in spring.
We barely thought of her at all
throughout the sun-worshipping summer. . .

But in autumn, the Moon
is bigger than all of us
–ripe and full of harvest.
We are astounded

by the face that watched us all year.
Beneath her, there is no hiding–
the push and pull of our world
is timed to her waning interest, not ours.

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