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Book SynopsisThese poems attend to the intricacies of intimacy-with the self, the beloved, the natural world, the divine
Table of ContentsTHE MOON THROUGH A SKYLIGHT • Let’s Be Serious Now • Just Say When • At Glen Lake vs. The Birth of Anger • Speaking of Ferocity at Sunset • The Key is How • The Moon Through a Skylight • Shark Shark Shark, or Whatever It Is That You Want Next • OCTOBERISH • In Answer to Your Burning Question • I’m Telling You the Story of Right Now • You Got Your Wish; I Got Mine • Octoberish • You Can Thank Me Later • Happy Birthday, Everything! • Tell Me Something Good • Want and Need • CUP AND STRING • Flesh and Language • Fascinated Is More Like It • Take It Back • Let Me Introduce You • More Perfect • I Know You Know • Cup and String • Please Do • A LITTLE JANUARY • This Is the Forrest; Do You Like It? • True for Good • A Little January • A Painted Sun • As a Consequence • Technological • In the Process of Making It Better • Wouldn’t It Be Dreamy? • FAR AS I CAN SEE, NEAR AS I CAN TELL • Far as I Can See, Near as I Can Tell • Some Kind of Lifetime • By the Way, Hello • What Do You Mean What Do You Mean-? • Stupidity, Crabbiness, Moorings & Love • It’s Never Just a Minute with You • A Question and Its Answer • Bluebell Report • Do You Want Me to Parse It Out? • A Covered Bridge • I Had My Castle Before You Had Your Fortress • She Named It Beauty • Bluebell Report • It’s Not a Poem, It’s a Novel • AGAIN WITH THE HONEYSUCKLE • Forever and Ever and Ever • Again with the Honeysuckle • I Want Your Kisses • All Those Mysteries and All That • It Was What It Was • It’s Tomorrow, Dear • Acts of Experience • JUNE FOR GOOD • A Fine Romance, or Here’s Never for You • Quite a Pink • A Little Tawny Owl • Little Noon • My Life in Heaven • The Deer Doesn’t Go Looking for the Hunter • A Quiet Tomorrow • LITTLE MUCHNESS • Little Muchness • I Would Welcome That • What Remoteness • Tending the Nectar • Knowing Full Well • Two Things at Once • Upon Reflection • Notes • Acknowledgments
