Figured Dark

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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Quote, Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments My thanks to the editors of the journals in which these poems first appeared, sometimes in slightly different forms: “Letter to M., from Swannanoa” and “Lilacs, for Instance,” Bellingham Review; “At 48, Walking My Baby Past the Voodoo Lounge,” “The Fish Lamp on the...

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pp. xi-xii

I

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In the Great Field at Mount Holyoke, under a Dome of Stars

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Caller, What is your Question?

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Rainy Afternoon at the Gotham Book Mart

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pp. 6-7

Not that Happiness

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pp. 8-9

Black Dog

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Self-portrait, with Epiphany to Come

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pp. 11-

For the Lord G-d Bird, No Longer Extinct

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At the Museum of Whiskey History

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My Mother Thinks She’s Peggy Lee

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Gentians

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Near Gatlinburg

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After the Divorce

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After an Illustration by Rockwell Kent ForMoby-Dick, in which a Whale Takes a Dory inits Maw, and Heads for the Bottom of the Sea

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Lost-Love Ghazals

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Feeder

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Archie Babcock Explains the Accident to John Berryman’s Biographer

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Exile Valise

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II

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Sail On, Sailor

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pp. 33-35

Making a Path to the Blackberries

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pp. 36-

Figured Dark

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pp. 37-38

Memories of Pittsburgh and Stern

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pp. 39-

American Kestrel

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Blue Angels

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Mason’s Kitchenettes

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The Fish Lamp on the Cover of Coastal Living Magazine

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Glaucoma

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pp. 47-50

In Ambient Light

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Obbligato

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Letter to M., from Swannanoa

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pp. 54-55

Lilacs for Instance

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Biopsy

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After the Diagnosis

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Swimming at Night

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Elegy for Light and Balance

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III

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The Body, Burning

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pp. 67-68

Hay Devil

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Discontinuous Narrative

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pp. 70-71

Letter to the Chairwoman of the ReunionCommittee

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pp. 72-75

Dancing with the Crack Whores, at theHomeless Shelter Run by My Wife

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Were We Speaking, Had You Asked

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pp. 78-

Letter to Robert in Gearhart

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pp. 79-

Descent

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Carolina Woodpecker

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pp. 81-

At 48, Walking My Baby Past the Voodoo Lounge

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pp. 82-83

Blackbirds

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The Salt Cairn

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Lepidopterist

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On a Visit to His Namesake City, St. Paul Walks Six Blocks of Goodrich Avenue

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pp. 87-88

Back Cover

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