The Cabinetmaker's Window: Poems

Contents

CONTENTS 1 Sometimes There Is a Shit Smell Everywhere 3 The West Virginia Copper-Wing 4 This Page 6 Song for the Holy Ghost 7 Two Cabinetmakers 8 Looking for the Maker’s Name 9 At Wartime 10 Questions I Asked Death, Questions Death Asked Me 12 The Rocking Chair Bookcase 13 Triumph of the Jabberwock 14 Phone Call from the Pleistocene 15 If Faulkner Is Wrong and We Don’t Endure or Prevail 16 2 Pig Fucker’s Wife 19 Song for the Tribe 21 The Chisel 22 Thank-You Wishes for the Wilderness 23 Death of a Unicorn 25 The Cabinetmaker’s Window 26 Like OMG, I Can Die Now ♥ Pammy 27 Ars Aureus 28 Lines for the Atrium of a High School 29 After Ammianus of the 2nd Century a.d. 30 Song for the Carry-On 31 Driving Around 32 3 The Little Girl from Outer Space 35 On the Back of an Envelope 37 The Denunciation of Ricky Skaggs from On High 38 Days We Can’t Play Black Sabbath 40 Ode with a Dolphin at the End 41 On the Birth of a Friend’s Child 42 Under the Collard Greens and the Poppies 43 To a Cloud over Troy 45 Dreaming Made the Hula Hoop 46 You Should, Said Socrates, Sing a Charm over Him Every Day Until You Have Charmed Away His Fears 48 Music for the Word Perhaps 49 The Hillbilly Break-Dance and the Talking Crow 50 4 Whiskey for Sorrow and a Song of Disgrace 55 The Laborer 56 What Sings in the Garden Shines in the Sun 58 The Way the Days Pass One after Another 59 Thank You Lord for the Dark Ablaze— 60 How the Things We Work On, Work On Us 61 On the Rebel Flag over my Neighbor’s House 62 To the Cabinetmakers 63 Song for Sunday Morning 65 Poem Ending with a Line from Auden 66 The Taste of It 68 In the Parking Lot of the Barbershop 69 Acknowledgments 71 ...