Table of Contents
from Awake
Two Pictures of My Sister 3
What My Father Told Me 5
Ghosts 7
The Garden 10
The Tooth Fairy 12
Quarter to Six 14
Awake 17
Girl in the Doorway 18
On the Back Porch 19
Bird 20
The Laundromat 21
Sunday 22
from What We Carry
Late October 27
After Twelve Days of Rain 28
Aphasia 30
What We Carry 31
For the Sake of Strangers 33
Dust 34
Twelve 35
Each Sound 36
Fast Gas 37
As It Is 39
The Thief 40
This Close 42
The Lovers 43
Kissing 45
from Smoke
Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl 49
How It Will Happen, When 50
Fear 51
Last Words 53
Trying to Raise the Dead 55
The Shipper's Wife 57
Abschied Symphony 58
Family Stories 60
Pearl 61
Smoke 63
The Orgasms of Organisms 65
Life is Beautiful 66
from Facts About the Moon
Moon in the Window 71
Facts About the Moon 72
The Crossing 74
The Ravens of Denali 75
The Life of Trees 78
What's Broken 80
Afterlife 81
Savages 82
Vacation Sex 83
Democracy 85
Face Poem 87
Superglue 88
Cello 89
Little Magnolia 90
Starling 91
from The Book of Men
Staff Sgt. Metz 95
Bakersfield, 1969 97
Juneau Spring 99
Mine Own Phil Levine 101
Late-Night TV 103
Homicide Detective: A Film Noir 105
Mick Jagger (World Tour, 2008) 108
Men 110
Antilamentation 111
Cher 112
Dog Moon 114
Mother's Day 116
Dark Charms 118
Lost in Costco 119
Second Chances 120
Fall 121
Emily Said 122
The Secret of Backs 123
Only as the Day Is Long: New Poems
Lapse 127
Before Surgery 128
Death of the Mother 130
Under Stars 131
Changeable Weather 133
Only as the Day Is Long 134
Piano with Children 135
My Mother's Colander 137
Ant Farm 138
Heart of Thorns 140
Ideas of Heaven 142
Crow 144
Ode to Gray 145
Evening 146
Error's Refuge 148
Augusta, Maine, 1951 150
Chair 152
Urn 153
Arizona 154
Letter to My Dead Mother 158
Acknowledgments 161
Notes 163
Index 165
