Keeper

Contents

Contents The Bat 1 s To Swim 5 Two Owls 6 Race Track, Hialeah, FL 8 Skin 10 Copper 13 Consolation 15 Girl, 9, Secretly Snips a Lock of Another Student’s Hair 16 Girl with Pigeons 18 Girl in the Backseat, Wisconsin Winter 19 Entering the Bath 20 s Stratus clouds form 25 Mackerel Sky 26 Lost Things 27 Translation 29 Butterflies at Santa Cruz 30 No Letters 31 Mission District, San Francisco 32 His Letter 33 Sassafras 34 The Gift 35 December Underneath 37 Foxgloves 38 The Selkie Wife 39 The Missing Women 40 The Selkie from Shore 43 Wild Blackberries 44 Robe 45 Fair Isle 46 Secondhand Dress 47 Window and Field 48 The Sleeping Gypsy 49 Claim 50 s Keeper 53 Cave Painting, Font-de-Gaume 55 Deep North 56 Bottle Gentian 57 A Kind of Vanishing 58 A Field Guide to North American Wildflowers 59 Bluebird House 60 Rufous-Sided Towhee 61 The Door 62 A Fragment of Sappho 63 Secondhand Sweater 64 The Selkie Returns from the Sea 65 Cusp 66 Wood 67 It moves 68 The Fire Road 69 s The Underpainting 73 Notes 75 Acknowledgments 77 viii keeper ...