Machine generated contents note: III. When I was alive. A complete and perfect silence -- Because a bird -- Let's begin with what we cannot hear -- Sometimes we are so close -- Nothing ends here -- Sometimes I cease to be the spider -- Housekeeping -- This shuffling across -- When does the moon -- So small this word, a cloud -- There is a mouth that speaks before it stutters -- The kiss -- Who is remember me -- What remains hidden -- II. The dog was not put down -- Drowning -- We are the ones -- I thought I would still my body -- A boy woke one morning with night sweats -- Forget the prayers -- This is not a dream -- Another rainy morning in Ohio -- Ask me -- I am your silence -- The inconsolable wind -- Weather -- Poking through the void -- Though it is dark now my grief -- Silence -- III. Instruction manual for growing old -- Where even the wind -- This poem is not -- Sometimes at night -- Wondering which names to sing -- Tell me how to speak -- There is no beyond -- Lying down to die in a field in Paxton, Massachusetts -- Last night I aged a hundred years -- Sometimes I say what I don't want -- The mud-riddled song of morning -- What gravity wants -- The blue door -- Burning -- The cup we share -- Ten versions of a life -- When I was alive.
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