Contents
List of Plates
Preface: Constructing Heaven
One
Hinton and Hejira
Emory and Henry
Appalachian Beard Stubble
Beginner’s Wine
Emerald Whisperings
Sawdust in Belly Hair
Two
A Red-Gold Mustache
Remember This Healing
Wintry Woods
Two Lovers
Sunset over Hinton
Incandescence
Displaced Seeds
Icefall
Bodies We Have Loved
Rotting Crab Apples
Heart’s Famine
Waiting for Crocuses and Silver-Maple Bloom
A Mustache Moist with Manna
Distance the Skeleton
The Symmetries of Happiness
A Feast Together
Not Enough
When All Goes Well
Three
Love Made Solid
Firefly Porches
Fried Chicken and Spoon Bread
Her Kitchen’s Square of Sunlight
Dispersed Consanguine Fires
How the Wilderness Feeds Us
Loss and the Daily Biscuit
Closet Dark
Four
Witness
Streaming Fire
Ephemera
Five
Finding Solace
Even in Heaven We Cannot Forget
Regional Oddities
So Many Gifts
They Show Me What I Know
See How Brave the Young Become
The Shaky High Wire between Subcultures
Saving What We Can
New Fathoms of Thirst
How to Live with Peace
God’s Bearded Face
The Silver in My Beard
Six: Poems