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v Table of Contents Foreword, Neil Besner / vii Biographical Note / viii Introduction, Jeanette Lynes / ix The Talisman / 1 Advertisement / 2 Compost / 3 The Song of Lot’s Wife / 4 A Stone from Fundy / 7 Well, Viewed by the God / 8 Colonial / 10 Red Earth [excerpt; from “Divinations,” Book Two] / 11 Walking Under the Nebulae / 14 The Weight of the Real / 15 The House as Sculpture as Chapel as Priest / 16 Six Poems on a Sculpture by Ülker Özerdem / 17 For the Cenotaph, November 11, 1983 / 23 Departures / 24 Whine / 25 King’s Landing / 26 The Gift from the Bad Fairy / 29 Skindeep / 30 The Horn That Is So Difficult to Play / 33 You Want Your Truths Told of You / 34 Hills / 35 Local Suite / 43 About the Size of It / 53 Half Past / 54 Triptych/Tock / 55 There Are Real Ants in the Metro / 58 Strive for a Deep Stillness / 59 Dusk Sequence / 60 Codicil / 62 “Cracked” / 63 Keeping Afloat / 68 The Soloist / 71 Tourists / 73 Overboard / 74 For You / 75 Afterword: Those Mysteries of Which We Cannot Plainly Speak by M.Travis Lane / 77 Acknowledgements / 81 vi / Contents ...

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