Table of Contents
Dedication 1
I
Night Prayer 5
Advent, First Frost 6
Stage IV 7
Vigil 9
Reading "Ulysses" 11
Hospital at Night 12
Leaving the Hospital 13
On a Line from Virginia Woolf's Diary 14
Periwinkle 15
Russian Bells 16
Three Salvations 17
Paper Mill, Macon 20
The Dybbuk 21
I Watched You Disappear 22
Skirts and Dresses 24
New Dress 25
Sexually Explicit Lyrics, Ash Wednesday 26
II
Owl Maiden 29
Maiden in the Glass Mountain 30
Strawberries in Snow 31
The Burned Ones 32
Silver Hands 33
The Flowered Skull 34
The Hazel Tree 35
III
Doors 39
Ubi Caritas Deus Ibi Est 41
Perigee Moon, Loose Tooth 42
My Son's Legs 43
Chasing a Grasshoppper at the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds 44
Borscht 45
The Overcoat 46
My Father in Vienna, 1958 47
Sorting Peaches 49
On Our Anniversary 50
Doing Laundry in Budapest 51
There's a River 52
Epiphany 53
No, it's not 54
Sea Glass 55
IV
Late Renoir 59
Valentine Godé-Darel (1873-1915) 60
Portraits in the Country 63
"Aren't we all so brave?" 64
Saint Sunday 65
The Buried Moon 66
The Firebird 67
Notes 69
Acknowledgments 71
