Covet

Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments, Dedication

Covet This page intentionally left blank. Covet poems Lynnell Edwards RedHenPress | Pasadena, CA Covet Copyright © 2011 Lynnell Edwards All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Book design by Anamaria Ramos Library of Congress Catalogue-in-Publication Data Edwards, Lynnell. Covet : poems / Lynnell Edwards. – 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-59709-171-8 I. Title. PS3605.D8895C68 2012 811’.6–dc22 2011025384 The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs partially support Red Hen Press. First Edition Published by Red Hen Press www.redhen.org Acknowledgements Thanks to the following who first published these poems: Dos Passos Review, “Only This Time, Only This Place”; Alehouse Poetry, “Severe Warning”; Valparaiso Poetry Review, “To Rake Leaves”; Poems & Plays, “Cherry Keeping Chest, c. 1860”; Asheville Poetry Review, “Bird”; Open 24 Hours, “Descent to Boathouse After Stroke”; Sou’wester, “Prodigal”; Comstock Poetry Review, “Photoshoot”; Smartish Pace, “Silver Demitasse Spoon, Engraved with the Letter B (one only),” “Kentucky Cherry Bedside Table with Turned Legs (Very Fine),” “Oak Lady’s Desk,” “Song,” “Chidden,” “Gingko Biloba”; Valparaiso Review, “To Rake Leaves,” “Suite for Red River Gorge,” “Hunt,” “Easter Monday”; Poetry from Paradise Valley, “Suite for Red River Gorge”; Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, “Catharsis Aura”; Grist, “My Friend Plays Old Time Music in My Kitchen”; River Styx, “No, Gracias”; Briar Cliff Review, “Thomas Merton in Bermuda”; The Pinch, “Instructions for my sons: quit leaving your bikes out.” The Louisville Review: “B is for Blind” and “Instructions for my sons: on falling asleep while reading Hawthorne.” ThanksalsotoearlyreadersofthemanuscriptincludingDougVan Gundy, David Mason, Julie Moore and Jeff Worley. Also thanks to numerous friends and family who read drafts of individual poems, particularly Martha Greenwald. And to David Mason, Kelly Cherry, and Davis McCombs, many thanks for their kind and generous endorsements of Covet. Ranier Maria Rilke epigraph on page 13 is from The Book of Images: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. Edward Snow. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, New York: 1991. This page intentionally left blank. For my mother, Ann Goben Widmer, and my father, Walter Witherspoon Major, Jr. This page intentionally left blank. ...