Contents
Interrogation
Poem of the first kiss
Keats at Fourteen
Darkfall
No, She Didn’t Think the Road Was Dangerous
To Stand in a Circle
Two for a Penny
Gray Fox
Lament
Poem beginning in loneliness
My Vulture, My Companion
For the Poet Enheduanna of Uruk
La Vida
For a Young Woman Dead at Twenty
Vinegar of Roses
In the middle of the story
Ode to Apples
Speaking to my Father on War
Night Traveling
I Still Say Your Name
Running Fire
The Work of Their Hands
Ode to the Verb To Be
Self Portrait as Daphne
The Good Neighbor
In Those Months Gold Leaf Drifted onto His Skin
The Understory
Poem for the parched
Summer
A Natural History of Light
To Get This Far
Star Pine
The Essence of Water
Rio Grande
Bone Box
Mad Meg
Northern Lights and Sound
Mapping Hallucinations
Space-time Tsunami
The Country That Doesn’t Exist
Poem on a female goldfinch
A Grove of Trees
Rough Innocence
Portion
To the Grandmothers
Acknowledgments