“Blood Wolf Moon” begins with a long poem called “Heritage,” which consists of a bracelet of poems modelled after a crown of sonnets. At one stage, the long poem was titled “Heritage of the Blood Wolf Moon.”
“Heritage III” begins with the line: “I was born in the month of the Blood Wolf Moon,” which refers to the super blood wolf moon, a moon in eclipse, which sometimes transpires in January. It’s an actual supernatural phenomenon that doesn’t happen often, and I took a bit of poetic license as I don’t know whether this eclipse occurred the month when I was born.
As I was working on the manuscript, I eventually decided to use “Heritage” as the title for the long poem and then adopt “Blood Wolf Moon” for the book’s title.