Poems. "Winner of the 2012 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize"--Cover.
Contents:
The underpainting. To swim -- Two owls -- Race track, Hialeah, FL -- Skin -- Copper -- Consolation -- Girl, 9, secretly snips a lock of another student's hair -- Girl with pigeons -- Girl in the backseat, Wisconsin winter -- Entering the bath -- Stratus clouds form -- Mackerel sky -- Lost things -- Translation -- Butterflies at Santa Cruz -- No letters -- Mission District, San Francisco -- His letter -- Sassafras -- The gift -- December underneath -- Foxgloves -- The selkie wife -- The missing women -- The selkie from shore -- Wild blackberries -- Robe -- Fair isle -- Secondhand dress -- Window and field -- The sleeping gypsy -- Claim -- Keeper -- Cave painting, Font-de-Gaume -- Deep north -- Bottle gentian -- A kind of vanishing -- A field guide to North American wildflowers -- Bluebird house -- Rufous-sided towhee -- The door -- A fragment of Sappho -- Secondhand sweater -- The selkie returns from the sea -- Cusp -- Wood -- It moves -- The fire road -- The underpainting.
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