The Geographer's Wife: New and Selected Poems

Contents

Contents EAST The Geographer’s Wife 13 The Contiguous 48 15 Memorial Ride 18 Raggedy Ann 20 Forever Spinning 22 Girls Like Linka 24 The Daily News 26 Goners 27 First Kiss 28 Pretty Bird 31 TE7-6330 32 Holiday 34 Head-On 36 NORTH Start Here 41 Writer’s Block 43 One Too Many Husbands 46 Hibernation 48 The New Math 50 Snouts 52 The Church of Dislocation 54 Romantic Bones 56 Seven 58 Despair 60 The Almighty Plate 62 Prairie Dance 64 Seamstresses 66 SOUTH Colonel Sanders (And the Gospel of Love) 69 South of the Border 71 Tombstone Territory 74 The Current of Desolation 76 Love is a Lumberjack with Wings 77 This Time of Year 78 The Gravity of Silence 80 Retirement 82 Topographical Error 84 Lost Dog 86 Decisions 88 The Wrong Side of Tomorrow 90 The Deep South 91 WEST Frame By Frame 95 West of the Mississippi 96 Breakdown 98 Weatherman 100 Sex Me 102 Neon Nights 104 Out of My Life 106 I Read My Mother to Sleep 108 Under Construction 110 Takin’ Stock 112 Go, Prepare, Surrender 113 The Happiest Man Alive 115 Latitude/Longitude 117 ...