The Bodies
Christopher Sindt
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
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Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621
© 2012 by Parlor Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sindt, Christopher.
The bodies / Christopher Sindt.
p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)
ISBN 978-1-60235-285-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-286-5 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3619.I54785B63 2012
811’.6--dc23
2012000366
Cover design by David Blakesley.
Cover: Commuters Castro Valley © 2010 by Jessica Dunne. Painting photographed by Ira Schrank. Used by permission.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Beginning with a Line from Exodus
Beginning with a Line by Rilke
Beginning with a Line by Wallace Stevens
So and So as a Force of Nature
Beginning with a Line by Julia Kristeva
(Hidden Bodies: Note to the Soul of the Maple
(Monument: Note to the Soul of the Body’s Lover