Table of Contents
I Grandmother, Cleaning a Rabbit 13
Stroke 15
My Father Burns His Mother's Underwear 16
New Owner 19
Remembering the Names 21
Trade Jargon 22
My Mother, Fetching a Switch 24
Plane Song 26
Constellations 27
Country Store 28
II Inside the Body 31
What Was He Thinking, My Grandfather 33
Falling a Tree 90° to the Lean 35
Old Men on the Dock 37
Shine 39
Knots 41
Working with Hayden Carruth 43
III Small Noticings 47
IV After the Argument 57
"Snail, Snail, Glister Me Forward" 58
Lady Slipper 59
Tulip Field, McLean Road 60
Uhtcearu: Morning Sorrow La Conner, Washington, May 2012 61
Botanical 62
Slow Air 63
Daffodils This Time, McLean Road Again 64
V Roadside Event 67
Missing 68
Sighting 70
Calling the Old Dog In 71
Mixing Concrete 73
Reading the Stumps 75
Checking the Boat at Night in a Storm 76
Watching My Neighbor on the Dock 78
Gooseberry 79
Walking in Place, Waldron Island 80
Cist, National Museum, Dublin 82
Exercise Yard, Kilmainham Gaol 83
Wine-Dark Sea 84
Good Friday Epitafios, Panagia Kimitirion, Island of Patmos 85
VI Diagnosis 89
Spring Elegy 91
Hometown Park 92
Closing the Art School 93
What We Carry on the Trail 96
What the Culinary Arts Teacher Knows About Grace 98
