Beautiful Trouble

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix  Always Girl  Consolation  Penance: Reading to a Shut-In  Papier-Mâché Jupiter  Fifth Grade  Pink  The Thirsting Hours  To Spit and Hone  Covenant  At Twelve  Consider the Thunder   Wherever the Dancing Is Done  Things Familiar  A Prayer for Intercession  Aurelia Waiting  Nemaha County Nocturne  Homestead  Mercy at Home  Almanac  Remedy  Sonnet for Dissonance  Threshing  About Rose Ida  Supplications to the Blessed Mother   Backroad  Commotions of the Flesh  Elegy for the Living  Aubade  viii The Fugitive Eve  Rhythm  At Cather’s Grave  Burning Back  At Twenty-Eight  Epithalamion for a Maiden Aunt  Jazz Rhapsody  The Wound You Need  What Endures  The Progress of Night  ...