Machine generated contents note: Calling to the Stars. Nebraska -- The Sound of Snow at Night on my Street -- Ode to Omaha -- Natural History -- Pencils (At the Nebraska State Juvenile Detention Center) -- On Looking Into One's Heart -- Discoveries About Technology and Personal Visibility -- A Thing That Happened -- At Sol's Pawn Shop -- Flash -- Examination of Faith (And the Big Bang) -- In The Packed Auditorium -- At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships -- Opening Night Rehearsal -- Flipping Channels Between the 2 Televised Football Games on a Sunday Afternoon -- There is a Lion Watching Me Write This Poem -- The Poem -- A Piece of the Continent -- Vexillology (Studying the Flag) -- After 9/11,1 Bought a Toaster -- Between Meteors and Fireflies -- Burton -- Standing in the Viewing Room of Nebraska's Electric Chair -- Nebraska -- Reality -- I Won't Lie -- Election Night -- Where You Point The Finger: Reflections on the Protest Against Immigrants -- In the 70s and 80s -- Blame the Beauty -- At Homestead National Monument -- Standing At The Highest Point -- When The Day Turns Beautiful -- At the Fossil Beds -- Heart, Fire -- Poets Prayer -- If You -- Niobrara -- Calling to the Stars.
Summary:
I Have A Poem The Size Of The Moon is a book of poems about Nebraska. Not cornfields, not cows: cities, highways, long drives and the political conversations simmering. 'Between Meteors and Fireflies In a drought year, corn stubble bends into Headlines: 'Farmers pray for rain.' Tumbleweeds take time to harmonize and choreograph, somewhere between meteors and fireflies. The grocery sells blueberries all year round, but the charge card feels heavy as a refrigerator once you slip it from the wallet. You don't end up buying the magazines, just browse. It's a tow truck, doorbell button, garbage disposal broke summer: no real difference between a silo and a paper sack, it seems. And in the hallway, light glows from under the bathroom door..'
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