September: Poems

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix September You Become Me 3 one Lingua 7 When We Saw It 9 Leaves 11 The Inversion 12 Yom Kippur 14 Bleeding Heart 16 American Terminal 17 X 18 The Call 20 How Did We Come to Be the Ones Whose Feet Are Being Washed? 21 I Know Why I Make the Past a Destination 23 Lookout 25 The Bone 26 Cheyenne 27 Manzanita 28 Eurydice 29 Pomme 31 The Floating Dock 32 two Late September 35 Kauai 37 Kalihiwai 39 Held 41 I Never Said Yes, I Just Never Said No 42 Cream of the Pour Is the Cream of Skin Thickening 44 Maybe Gravity 45 Ocean and Integer 47 Late August 49 Eucharist 50 Fired in the Body 51 The Second of September 53 Equinox 54 One 55 Birth Is When We Recall Ourselves 56 Often She’d Drop into Fathomless 57 Milk 58 In the Skin Tent the Heart Was a Fire 59 three The Sea Came Up and Drowned 63 Container Garden 65 Dolphins at Seven Weeks 66 At the DQ 67 Oh, I Have That Too 68 The Endangered Species Carousel 70 Like Playing Two Instruments at Once 71 Metaphor of the Room 72 Children Together 74 Early Childhood 75 Hour 77 Double Vision 78 Through Hooded Clouds Untranslatable, Once 80 After the Caverns 81 Ozone Alert Day 83 The Brain of the World Was Recalling Itself 85 Wintering 88 La Porte 89 It Had to End 90 ...