Jennifer Moss''s BEAST TO BE YOUR FRIEND a finalist in the 2008 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest is a strange beast indeed. Beautiful and odd in equal measure these poems charm are charms themselves collected on a string shining shrinking shirking all of their duties opting instead for play. Instead they make up a tiny bestiary (birds goats calves cows centaurs octopi zebras dogs and more) and court the darkness under everything.