The Empty Loom: Poems

Contents

Contents I Before Summer Rain 3 Mushrooms 6 Breaking the Soil 7 Parenthetical 9 Herbal 10 Pokeweed, Persimmons 11 Edward Weston’s Peppers 13 Looking at a Book of Paintings by Modigliani on a Rainy Afternoon 14 Days of Heaven 16 Monet at Giverny 17 Lunar 19 The Configuration of Bodies in a Lunar Eclipse 20 Coming Again upon Mensch’s Mill, by Accident, after the Passage of Years 22 Key to the Highway 24 On a Winter Night 25 Winter Storm Watch 26 Mating 28 Birthstones 29 Mullein: Third Trimester 30 Journal of the First Birth 32 Fragment 37 Skunk Cabbage 38 Morning Swim 40 II The Empty Loom 43 At the Hall of American Indians in the Carnegie Museum 44 The Scarf 46 vii Li / The Clinging, Fire 48 Clearing Out the Closet 51 Florilegium of the Wildflowers in New Homestead, Pennsylvania 52 Blues Passage 54 Elegy Roses 55 Garden Diptych 57 Orchards 59 There Were Flowers Also in Hell 63 Braving the Elements 64 Sonnet 66 Irish Catholic 67 Remission 69 Drawing Her Bath 71 Notes 73 viii ...