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Contents Acknowledgments xv Sermon May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leavingthe Baptist Church 3 Into the Stone Sleeping Out at Easter 17 The Underground Stream 19 The String 21 The Vegetable King 23 The Enclosure 26 The Jewel 28 The Performance 30 The Wedding 32 The Other 34 Trees and Cattle 37 Walking on Water 39 Awaiting the Swimmer 41 On the Hill Below the Lighthouse 43 Near Darien 45 Into the Stone 47 Drowning With Others I The Lifeguard 51 Listening to Foxhounds 53 A Dog Sleeping on my Feet 55 Contents i x The Movement of Fish 57 The Heaven of Animals 59 A Birth 61 Fog Envelops the Animals 62 The Summons 64 In the Tree House at Night 66 For the Nightly Ascent of the Hunter Orion Over a Forest Clearing 68 The Owl King 70 II Between Two Prisoners 78 Armor 81 In the Lupanar at Pompeii 83 Drowning With Others 85 III Dover: Believing in Kings 87 To His Children in Darkness 94 A Screened Porch in the Country 96 Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek 98 The Hospital Window 100 IV The Magus 102 Facing Africa 103 Inside the River 105 The Salt Marsh 107 In the Mountain Tent 109 Helmets I The Dusk of Horses 113 Fence Wire 115 At Darien Bridge 117 X [44.200.40.97] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:37 GMT) Chenille 119 On the Coosawattee 122 Winter Trout 127 Springer Mountain 130 II Cherrylog Road 134 The Scarred Girl 138 Kudzu 140 The Beholders 143 The Poisoned Man 145 In the Marble Quarry 147 A Folk Singer of the Thirties 149 III The Being 154 The Ice Skin 157 Bums, on Waking 159 Goodbye to Serpents 161 Approaching Prayer 163 IV The Driver 169 Horses and Prisoners 171 Drinking from a Helmet 173 Buckdancer's Choice I The Firebombing 181 II Buckdancer's Choice 189 Faces Seen Once 191 The Common Grave 194 Reincarnation (I) 196 Them, Crying 198 The Celebration 201 Contents x i The Escape 203 The Shark's Parlor 205 III Pursuit from Under 209 Fox Blood 212 Fathers and Sons I. THESECOND SLEEP 214 II. THEAURA 215 Sled Burial,Dream Ceremony 218 Gamecock 220 The Night Pool 222 The War Wound 223 Mangham 224 Angina 226 Dust 228 The Fiend 230 IV Slave Quarters 234 Falling I Reincarnation (II) 243 II The Sheep Child 252 Sun 254 Power and Light 256 The Flash 258 Adultery 259 Hedge Life 261 Snakebite 263 Bread 265 Sustainment 267 A Letter 269 x i i [44.200.40.97] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:37 GMT) The Head-Aim 271 Dark Ones 272 Encounter in the Cage Country 274 For the Last Wolverine 276 The Bee 279 Mary Sheffield 281 Deer Among Cattle 283 The Leap 284 Coming Back to America 286 III The Birthday Dream 288 False Youth :Two Seasons 290 Falling 293 Contents x i i i This page intentionally left blank ...