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Contents: Fulks Run to Cumberland 3; Advice for Walkers 5; Soul Travel at the Electric Brew, Goshen, Indiana 7; The Recovery of Imaginary Friends 8; Late Psalm 10; An Hour 12; Interior Colloquy in Glen Helen 13; Notes toward an Interrogation of Staged Violence 15; Ode to Luna with Implausible Quotations 17; Astonishing Details of the Universe 18; The Poet on the Beaver Marsh 20; February Report on Conditions in the Interior 21; Hum 23; Where Water Finds an Edge 25; Firefly 26; Rules (Observed and Unwritten) for Hot Sundays in the Heart of the Empire 29; The Vice President for Obscure Relations Rises to Offer Something Resembling an Explanation 31; Meditation on Brilliance, Absinthe, Love, and Power 32; Tales of Feeble and Bitter Boys 34; What We Said When We Talked All Day 35; Heresy in Ohio, or What I Learned at Books on Main 37; Note from the Week after Next 38; Signature, or Jonathan Edwards and Joe Walsh Meet in the Electric Brew 39; When Madonna Met Menno 41; The Visiting Poet Blunders through His Own Assignment 42; Praise Is a Language 44; Notes toward Local Representation of Complex Linguistic Events 45; Futurism in the Black Swamp 47; Structural Adjustments to Maintain Growth Will Be Necessary 49; Letter with Melody and Fall from Chair 50; Dark Man Blues 55; The Song of the Weed Witch 56; June Report with Suppressed Geese and Sweatbees 58; Some Things of This World 60; Report on Recent Activities in Austin (Selected) 62; Small World 64; Day at the Pond without Geese 65; On the Day I Meant to Leave Town 67; Lunch Poem at Snow Road 69; Cuyahoga Rules 71; Settle 72; Letter to Students Gone for Summer 74; We Go Out Searching for Sermons in Stone 75; Doorways 77; Contemplation with Ledges and Moon 78; Alba in Everett, Ohio 83; From the Screen Porch 84; Mountain Dawns 85; The Music of What Happened 87; Spring Tractates 89; Some Lines for Lincoln, O. 95; “Then in a Wailful Choir the Small Gnats Mourn” 97; Early Walk with Big Willow and Demiurge 98; Furnace Run, Sunday 100; Contemplation at the Bar R Ranch 102; From the Rocks at Dusk 104; Redwing Pond 105; “Night, the Astonishing . . .” 106

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