Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Children of the Right Reverend
11. Find a Shining Moment of Truth Among the Rubble
12. To My Son, Growing Up
13. Saying Grace
14. All the Old Hippies
17. Book Burning
18. Two Would-Be Preachers
19. Prodigal Daughter
20. Observing Proprieties
21. If a Garden
22. Driving Through Migrating Monarchs
23 A Visitor’s Notes
24 Just Assertive, That’s All
25. Luck
26. Daily Bread
27 For a Writer
28 Poetreality
30. Fishing in the Creek
31. In My Mother’s House
33. These Days I Cry at the Drop of a Hanky
35. A Century After the Run Into Cherokee Lands
36. Teaching Poetry in Public Schools
37. When I Grow Up
41. Other Woman, Other Man
42. Defining Sin
44. Do-Overs
47. What Marriage Is
Not a Prodigal
48. What I Remember
52. Warrior Girl
53. Those Edge Boys
55. Respectability
56. Not God
57. Grandma Had One Book
59. At the Mall, Sixties Style
60. No Justice
61. Privilege
62. Prayer
63. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
64. Geometry is Beautiful
65. My Devout Sister
66. For Ann On Her 70th Birthday
67. Elegy for Dolores
70. Considering Immortality
71. Church Ladies
72. American Gothic in the Age of Feminism
74. Resolve and A.D.D.
76. Eight Hours Ago
77. Just Another Day in Paradise
78. Old Folks at Night
81. I Meant to Write a Sonnet
82. Preacher’s Kids Make Good Pets
83. Theology Lessons From My Friend Debra
84. It’s All In How You Look at It
85. Lines to a Stranger Who Accused Me of Hating God’s Chosen
86. Another Lesson in Theology
87. Justified
88. American Prince
89. Woman Card. Race Card. Poverty Card.
90. Lines for Grandpa Willoughby
91. This Land
92. Learning to Speak
93. Four Poems
94. Metaphor I
95. Venn Diagram: Chickens and Humans
96. Metaphor II
97. St. Paddy’s Day
98. Haiku
99. Politics of Poetry
100. If We Understood Our True Potential
101. Manifest Destiny and Other Dangerous Ideas
102. Daddy Loved the Story of Thomas
103. Crazy John
104. White Mother
105. Coming to Terms
107. How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again
110. Acknowledgements
111. About the Author
112. About the Artist/Illustrator
