The Many Woods of Grief: Poems

Table of Contents

vii conTenTs We are all of Us nearly home 1 i Graffiti 4 Geosmin 5 The Last Arctic 6 Fingers Point at the New Moon Rising 8 Stitches 9 Generation of Bird 10 Sad Topology of a B-Movie Love Tryst 19 crabgrass 21 The Accordionist 23 You Who Taught Yourself Braille 25 The Dual-Shade of Six-Prong 26 ii Logic of Rawhide 34 Regarding Rain 37 To the Visionary 44 Translations of “My Refrigerator Light Makes ItsWay TowardYou” into the 34 Languages Spoken in the Many Woods of Grief 45 Biography of Creek 50 Her Hunger, Barometrical 51 Whensoever It Snows, My Vermont 52 Conversation 54 By Way of Apology 55 My Mother’s Quickened Heart (Leonid Shower, 2000) 57 The Pointillists 59 The Cookiecutter Shark (Isistius Brasiliensis) 60 Further Along Now 63 viii Rock Creek, Pre-Dawn 71 Rock Creek, Pre-Dawn 72 Notes 73 Acknowledgments 75 The Many Woods of Grief ...