Contents
A Prayer to Eve
1969-1973
Celebrations
The Angel
Tomorrow
Falling Off
Running through Sleep
Evaporation Poems
Stomach
Eve Alone, in the Garden of Eden
Listening to Music Alone
Blue Mountain
Bean Song
Excerpts from the Angel Handbook
Space Walk/Self Portrait
Kansas Anymore
At a Window, New York City
1974-1981
On the Northwest Hiawatha
Inheritance
Cows
On the Land
New Year’s Eve in Bismarck, North Dakota
The Dancers
The Middle of the World
Calentures
A Place on Grand River
Getting Lucky
The Year of Common Things
Harvest
Dust
Washing Dishes Late at Night
A Poem about Faith
1982-1986
For My Aunt Mary
Perennials
Pommes de Terre
Housecleaning
The Wedding at the Courthouse
Young Lovers with Pizza
Eve of St. Agnes in the High School Gym
The Blue Light
Numbers
The Age of Reason
Little Girls in Church
The Gift of Tears
How I Came to Drink My Grandmother’s Piano
The Monastery Orchard in Early Spring
Land of the Living
A Letter to Paul Carroll, Who Said I Must Become a Catholic so That I Can Pray for Him
“The Sky is Full of Blue and Full of the Mind of God”
The Wine
The Astronomy of Love
Why the Image of a Starry Womb Is Not Poetic Claptrap but Good Science
Taking the Blue
1987-1999
Cinderella in Kalamazoo
Giveaway
Ascension
The Ignominy of the Living
Epiphany
A.J.’s Passage
Mysteries of the Incarnation
Luke 14: A Commentary
Return of Swamp Thing
Three Wisdom Poems
Children of Divorce
Afterward,
The Companionable Dark
What Song, Then?
Goodness
Naming the Living God
Emily in Choir
The Tolling
Hide and Seek
La Vierge Romane
The Room
Who Do You Say That I Am?
Nutrition
The Presbyterian Women Serve Coffee at the Home
Gold of Ophir
Body and Blood
Acknowledgments