Many-Storied House: Poems

Index of First Lines

119 Index of First Lines After I’d locked, 109 after your daddy died, 60 All I remember about playing, 96 All I see is You, 101 As if to pay, 43 At eighty-six, recovering from C. diff, 62 Because Daddy’s dry cleaners, 16 Betty the Beautiful Bride is shut inside, 67 Cap gun, 74 Colossal storms, 33 corseted and scowling, 78 Cusp of spring after the winter, 41 Daddy called the Walkman, 82 Every fall, when maple blood was drying, 35 Everywhere was where, 81 From the landing you step, 52 Gladys stayed home—had something like flu, 44 He plays the board game, 30 Here I stand, at the beginning, 3 Her grandkids, 105 120 Index Home from work, 19 How could a child, 86 I am doggedly working, 106 I am the one who, thirty years ago, 99 I’d found the album on a shelf behind, 58 In the library above the couch, 55 It held Boy Scout knives, 27 “I think if I’d been a man,” Mother told me, 29 It’s April, 70 It’s like the spell cast on the castle, 77 I wake up and the house I just took, 110 I was old enough to help carry in groceries, 28 Just inside the door, 10 Late afternoon I lie down for a nap but instead, 114 Loading the truck for the last leaving, 107 Mother? Dead? Who will, 63 Mother says we are going across the street, 68 my brother’s room, 73 My brother turns two, talking a blue streak, 22 My mother decided, 53 October and we’re in the library, 56 On Daddy’s only morning home, 84 On the cornice board, 20 Our HUD trailer, 46 Papaw made me, 69 Probably the nasturtiums, 93 Index 121 She almost died in that wingback, 12 Something happened, 64 Standing, 23 that I gave away ________ , 112 That man, that shining man, 15 that melted, 25 That night in a froth of wrath, 75 that she is too weak, 100 the chair the husband, 61 The house inside our house, 18 The morning Daddy was leaving, 11 They were determined to have, 47 This is the poem I don’t want to write, 88 This is the window, 8 This is where she stood, 21 This square where I sneakily sat, 51 This table stands where, 31 we passed, 7 What I feared in, 66 When Daddy got the hi-fi, 14 When I first saw Daddy in the ICU, 36 When I opened, 32 When I told the healer about my mother’s last day, 103 When Mother came home from the hospital, 24 When Mother looked under, 95 When they were tearing down the Bank of Harlan, 26 When they woke, 80 ...