"Collects poems written between June 2018 back to June 2017"--Back cover. "NYQ Books is an imprint of The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc."--Title page verso.
Contents:
New Year Day Marigold Poem. Mourning Dove -- The Hawk and Its Shadow -- Reversal -- A True Dynamic -- The Skull at the End of the Driveway -- Poem to Myself -- What We Need to Live -- Homage to the English House Sparrow -- A Sort of Ars Poetica -- The Failure to Be Jade -- Mirror -- A Kind of Ellipsis -- Waking Up -- Improvisation -- Exercise -- A Poem that Remembers Itself -- Sassafras Leaves -- A Word to the Wise. A Word to the Wise -- Here -- What We Keep -- A Pastoral -- Shutting Down -- Catbird -- Harlequin's Praise on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary -- At a Bus Stop in El Mora, 1980 -- The Flowers Offend Me Because -- Poem in Which Everyone Remembers the Blizzard Of -- Wood Thrush -- Post-Pastoral. The Three-toed Rhyme -- In Another Life -- Post-Pastoral -- An Old Vaudevillian Dream -- Winter Poem -- The Compound Sentence -- The Kingdom of Broken Necks -- The Puddle Jumper -- Anadiplosis -- Paradise Lost -- Why is it Always December Between us? -- A Small Thing -- Poem in Which I Shit on Unity -- Early Winter -- Grey from Grey -- Before Another Snow -- Glass Swan Full of Food Coloring -- Compline -- Postlude: a Little Hope -- On the Feast of the Assumption -- New Year Day Marigold Poem.
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