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Index of Titles and First Lines
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Index of Titles and First Lines A bit of rice in a string bag, 234 A bone standing up, 6 A goldfinch in the rain, 30 A homeless woman with harsh white hair, 203 A lorry scatters, 229 A man whose arms and shoulders, 221 A man with an infant in his lap, 240 A sculpture in a bare white gallery, 130 A spit of sky, awash with Venetian gold, 46 A thumbnail-sized globe of blood, 206 A thumb’s-length landscape: Snow, on a hill, 175 A weed green, 28 A woman sits at her worktable, reading stories, 112 A woman was picking up the plastic, 25 A woman’s face at the window, 105 A year in the Pacific, 253 A young king, 94 “Abortion Child,” 272 “About Love,” 176 “ ‘Actuarial File,’ ” 157 “Adam and Eve: Poem on Folded Paper,” 71 “Advent Calendar,” 32 “After Consciousness of This Big Form,” 200 “After Elegies,” 103 “After Elegies (2),” 106 “After Elegies (3),” 138 After she died, 266 “Afterbirth,” 52 “Alcohol,” 232 Alcohol alcohol alcohol, 269 “Alfred and the Abortion,” 191 Alfred, what did they do with your arm bones? 191 All the years waiting, the whole, barren, young, 70 All this anger, 20 Almost two years now I’ve been sleeping, 103 (Alone), 259 “Alone, Alive,” 213 Alone, alive, 213 “American River Sky Alcohol Father,” 206 And finally I’ll say goodbye, 82 “Anesthesia,” 105 “Annunciation,” 3 “April,” 87 April 6th: the country thaws and drips, 58 “Archangel,” 90 Ask, and let your words diminish your asking, 49 “Asleep over Lines from Willa Cather,” 46 At a memorial service, 232 “At Cullen’s Island,” 205 “At My Mother’s Grave,” 210 At the back of the church, 264 “At the Conference on Women in the Academy,” 264 “At the Door,” 212 “ ‘Autumn Day,’ ” 103 “Avalon,” 32 Avalon, 32 “Awake, This Summer,” 169 “Away from you,” 260 Away from you, 260 B. is dragging his mother’s bones, 248 B. walks around with a fire-box inside his chest, 221 “Baby Rabbits in the Garden, The,” 236 Back home, after a month away, 222 “Badlands Said, The,” 196 “Barrie’s Dream, the Wild Geese,” 198 “Basket House, The,” 19 “Beast with Two Backs, The,” 60 Because why—I was dis-, 228 “Bees,” 221 Before the expected street into town, 268 Begging my mother to speak to him, 227 Being told, 210 “Beka, 14,” 129 “Bin Dream #2, Interview with Stravinsky,” 89 “Bin Dream, West Cottage East, D-11,” 88 “Birthday Letter from South Carolina,” 171 “Bit of Rice, A,” 234 “Black for the People,” 228 Black hair, 208 “Black Wolf,” 248 “Blind Stirring of Love, The,” 257 “Blue Dory, the Soul, The,” 22 “Bone Standing Up, A,” 6 Breath entering, leaving the leaf, 229 “Bride’s Hours, A,” 51 “Broken-down Girl,” 87 “Bud,” 189 “Burden of Memory, The,” 152 But what about the blue dory—the soul, 22 “Butane,” 209 “By the Boat Pond,” 78 By the Granary River, 272 By the St. Vrain River, 201 “By the Tekapo River, 100 Degrees,” 200 “Cambridge, April 27, 1957,” 54 “Cambridge by Night,” 47 “Child,” 261 “Child and the Terrorist, The Terrorist and the Child, The,” 97 “Child Jung, The,” 93 “Child’s Death, A,” 109 Christmas night, my father said, “Jean, 189 “Church, The,” 269 “Coin, The,” 13 “Coltrane, Syeeda’s Song Flute,” 93 “Come Akhmatova,” 203 Come in, 24 Coming east we left the animals, 197 “Counselor Retires, and Then He Dies, The,” 172 “Couples, The,” 75 “Cousin,” 8 “Couvre-Feu: after Paul Eluard,” 120 Crossing a fenced-off railroad track, 252 Dancing in a room full of muzak and smoke, 236 Dawn, streaks of rose-brown, dry—, 131 Day by day you are being drawn, 234 “Dearest,” 86 Dearest darling woodenhead, 80 “Death Asphodel,” 211 “Death House,” 89 “December 21st,” 147 “Déjà-vu,” 45 “Do flies remember us,” 16 Do flies remember us, 16 Do well in the world, 223 “Do you remember?” 32 Do you remember, last time we saw each other, how the first thing, 152 Do you remember? my mouth black and blue, 32 “Documentary: AIDS Support Group,” 233 “Dog Skin Coat,” 230 “Door in the Mountain,” 25 Down the aisles of this dark town, 47 “Dream Barker,” 71 Drink cut my wrists, 270 “Drinker, The,” 258 “Drinker (2), The,” 258 “Drinker’s Wife Writes Back, The,” 170 “Dufy Postcard,” 129 “Eighteen,” 5 Eimear was dead, 205 “Elegy for Jane Kenyon...