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Contents Introduction Xl May Day Sermon to the Women ofGilmer County, Georgia, 3 by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church from Into the Stone and Other Poems (1960) Sleeping Out at Easter 17 The Vegetable King 19 The Performance 22 from Drowning with Others (1962) The Lifeguard 27 Listening to Foxhounds 29 The Heaven ofAnimals 31 In the Tree House at Night 33 Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek 35 from Helmets (1964) The Dusk of Horses 41 Cherrylog Road 43 A Folk Singer of the Thirties 47 The Being 52 Approaching Prayer 55 Drinking from a Helmet 61 from Buckdancer's Choice (1965) The Firebombing 69 Buckdancer's Choice 78 The Celebration 80 The Shark's Parlor Fox Blood The Fiend Slave Quarters from Falling (published in Poems, 1957-1967) (1967) Reincarnation (II) The Sheep Child For the Last Wolverine The Bee Mary Sheffield Falling from The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victor~ Madness, BuckheadandMercy (1970) Victory Pine Madness The Eye-Beaters from The Strength o/Fields (1979) Root-light, or the Lawyer's Daughter The Strength of Fields The Rain Guitar Remnant Water False Youth: Autumn: Clothes of the Age from Puelfa (1982) From Time Tapestry and Sail from The Eagle's Mile (1990) Eagles Circuit Night Bird TheOne The Three The Eagle's Mile Vll1 99 1°9 III 114 116 118 127 131 134 138 159 161 Meadow Bridge 175 Tomb Stone 176 Moon Flock 177 from Double-tongue: Collaborations and Rewrites Purgation (second version) 181 Index ofTitles and First Lines 183 Contents IX This page intentionally left blank ...

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