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Book SynopsisEvery poem in this book is a like a heart in a jar. Kathleen’s superb eye and exacting craft rides on the power of images that throttle the reader off the page, yet one foot is so firmly rooted in the real world, we feel incredibly satisfied that we took a wild journey and came back home safely. These poems are a great ticket, existing as tremendous short scripts for the films she directs in our heads.” --Michael Delp, Lying in the River’s Dark Be Kathleen McGookey has published two full-length collections of poems and two chapbooks.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Dear Death 7 Mended II 8 Folk Tale 9 Thank You for Your Question 10 This Was My Real Life 11 Like Stars 12 Reasons I Might Understand 13 Death, Yesterday 14 Hippopotamus Hide Box 15 Into the Dollhouse 16 The Life Below 17 In My Pink Room 18 The Second-Hand Star 19 Death, Let’s Find 20 At the School Costume Parade 21 Monkey Island 22 Tornado Machine 23 Windfall 24 In My River 25 Possum Skull in the Field 26 Pain Lake 27 Death, Now Where’s the Skinny Stray 28 Dr. Holtgrieve, DDS 29 Another Kind of Pain 30 The Grief Jacket Project 31 Corrections 32 Private 33 Death, Vary Your Question 34 At the Football Game 35 Like His Heart in a Jar 36 When My Son Goes to Middle School, I Read Audubon 37 Pull Up Your Red Pickup 38 Homesickness 39 Good Reason 40 Postcard from a Little Boat 41 Once 42 The Zoo in Winter 43 At the Dance Lesson 44 The Day After a Girl Sprouted in the Flowerbed 45 Fairy Tale 46 The Day’s Catch 47 It’s March, Death 48 Under the Red Umbrella 49 Illness in October 50 Sleeping Bear 51 On the Day of the Dead 52 Reverence for Life Service 53 Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Emotions 54 Take this Scrap of My Words, 55 Passage 56 Lighthouse Tour, South Manitou Island 57 To Clarify: 58 Today, On Norris Road 59 At the John Ball Zoo 60 At the Zoo, Again 61 The Long Silence 62 P.S., Death 63 Apology to My Son 64 ?
