Contents
One
Is This Not a Strange Life to Which I Call You
A Flaming Sword
The Storm on the Lake
Holy Water in a Dry-House
The Dynamited Mass
Cain the Earthmover
To Rain
My Scallop-Shell of Quiet
The Burden of the Valley of Vision
Burn Pit
The House of the Forest
A Procession in the Cave
The Spell of the Covenant
Holy Convocations
Scandalized People, Meaning All of Us
The Riches of Darkness
To Serve Those Who Do Not Serve
Bell-Sound
Two
The Thin Harvest
Sworn to Secrecy the Morning He Performed the Sacrament
Apron of Leaves
The Supernumerary Persons Being Enrichers of His Inheritance
Holy Convocations
The Exasperated Spirit
Spun Wisdom
The Blood Forsakes My Face
The Stench of Cursed Ground
Holy Convocations
Our Days All Pass Awaiting Its Return
He Houghed Their Horses, and Burnt Their Chariots with Fire
They Held to Sanity So Hard They Were Insane
The Burden of the Valley of Vision
The Morning Light
Dawn’s Careful Seal
Air Craft
Three
Bodies into Hills, Hills into Homes
Thinking Is Weeping Entering Eternity
On Ester Mountain
An Orgy of Absence
To Take Corporeal Shape
The Morning Light
Dining at the Core of an Old Silence
The Soul’s Chiasmus
A Crown of Thistles
A Detail of Devotion
A Cipher for the Symbol of Zero
Choke the Word
Under What Shadow
The Grooves along Which the Cranes Glide
Ornamental Armor
Armor & Ornament
The Armor of Light
Acknowledgments
Notes