Table of Contents
I. Radiance and Shadows
City Aspect 1
Some Summer Work 3
Coffee Nights 4
River: Wabash 5
River: Beneath 6
The House on Iowa Street 7
Thrombosis 9
Winter Mornings on 17th Street 11
What a Poet Cannot Understand 12
Basement Apartment 14
Evening in April 16
The Light at the End of the Universe 17
II. The Language of Discord
I Have Seen the Dead 21
Spring Break 2010 22
The Beauty 24
Double Eagle in a Vigo County Pawnshop 25
As Things Are 26
When the Storm Moves On 27
Circling 28
Old Railtrack 30
Night Snow 32
His Name’s Mark, He’s Got No Shirt, No Shoes, No
Home, He’s on the Corner of Seventh and College
with a Cardboard Sign and Sweating in the Hot Noon
for Pennies Thrown into a Battered Old Hat 33
Alan Kurdi 34
Watermelon Surplus 35
The Day 37
At the Site of Fort Sackville 40
After Mythology 41
The House on Clark Street 43
III. Politics, Gods, and Other Nightmares
Before Prometheus Gave Fire to Man 47
The Wireless Deity 48
Aquarius’ Age 49
Perennial 51
Corpse Flower 52
Killing the Ants 53
Alt-Reality 54
Politics in the Age of Poison 55
The Stripping Away 56
Dream of the Black Sun 57
Divinity 58
God’s Bucket List 59
Sisyphus at the Summit 62
IV. Rejoining the Spiral
Speak of a Body 67
Links 68
Becoming Rain 70
In a Previous Life 71
In Praise of Life 72
Tree Bones 73
Half-dream in Autumn 74
Driving on an August Evening 75
On a Ferry for Beaver Island, MI 76
Greening 77
