Karla K. Morton: New and Selected Poems

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Table of Cont ent s Introduction, Billy Bob Hill Alamo Coastline Searching for Ascension For Love and Michelangelo Becoming Superman Charm Bracelet Stone-Faced Men Where Moonlight Cannot Tread Bursting into Snowflakes Electronic Quills Superman’s Birthday Don’t Be Nervous Sailor’s Delight Pictographs The Real Story of How Quanah Parker Brought the Wisdom of Jesus Christ to Native Americans Still Wild Wildfire DNA Wild Pecans What Clings to the Back of the Spoon Tumbleweed Philosophy Smoke Rings over Wichita County Graveside in Sanger Bad Theology Christmas at Love Field The Monarch and Her Mistress (continues) 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 vii Confessions of a Laundromat Junkie Shattering the Ordinary (a Superman shadorma) Indian Blood Inside Fat Quarters Longhorned Angels When Texas No Longer Fits in the Glove Box Gypsy Envy On the Podium a.k.a. Elvis Arachnid Platoon Horse Latitudes Clark and the Wolves San Nicola Intercessions Death and Soapboxes, Aisle 5 The Closer Phobic Hanging On After After the Floods in Gainesville TOPLESS COCKTAILS DANCING NIGHTLY Water Meeting Tim The Tightening. The Loosening Memoirs of a Neighbour: The Moment Frost and I Became Friends Clearing out the Irises The New Hardscrabble Dead Coyote Detour (continues) viii 33 35 36 37 38 39 4 0 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 4 6 47 4 8 5 0 5 2 54 5 5 5 6 57 58 5 9 60 61 63 65 66 Why God Needs a Shotgun If Only the Iceman Could Have Learned to Drive Caliche Dust Retirement: No Maydays Living Close to DFW Airport, September 12, 2001 Stranded Persistence Fry Street Saints Woman in the Pipe Shop Coming of Age Picking up the Accent Acknowledgments About the Author ix 67 68 70 72 74 75 76 78 79 80 81 83 85 ...