Dear mystical reader. Coda. John Henry sleeping in high grass -- Where the steel of ploughs -- Preachers -- Houses of ice, 1969 -- The lay of paradise, 1970 -- A baby in the crash of '29 -- Mass production -- The wheel. Spirit boxing -- Morning shift -- The good traveler -- The bluesman speaks on original man -- Ivory soap, a whiteness -- The worker we named Freight Train & his revelation of Ezekiel's vision -- When they fired our magician -- Knowledge of silk -- Beatitudes, the merciful -- Handling the heaviness -- How to use a buck knife -- Beatitudes, the peacemakers -- When hard men love each other -- Freight train returns from the hospital -- Black scab -- A truck drive from West Virginia -- The good job -- The winepress -- Freight Train watches me do my taiji -- In Mencken's neighborhood -- Wheels inside wheels. When the farms give out -- Walk on, walk away -- A postscript to Giant -- Interiors, a miner's home -- Grabbing lunch in the morgue -- A nation of hands -- Ode to the wheelchair -- Get on up, now -- Whole cloth -- A legacy, southern kin -- The gray mare -- Blood of union of states -- Mr. Fugg's hardware store -- Making soldiers -- Ode ot the hard men -- The hipness of hips -- Coda. Repack room -- Where no good can live -- The architecture of factories, 1985 -- Ode to the righteous union -- Dear mystical reader.
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