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Contents
The Lyric “I” Drives to Pick Up Her Children from School: A Poem in the Postconfessional Mode
The Late Repentant (Antepurgatory)
SONNET (stopped)
Complaint
Late-Night Poemcall
Cho(o)se Love
Threshold
Not This
I Had a Ski-Masked Rapist in My House
Commentary
Lime Tree Bower
SONNET (silenced)
Fragmentary
Kafka and Milena About to Meet in Vienna
Threshold
Alaska Aubade (Winter)
The Poem She Didn’t Write
2
Fragmentary
SONNET (falling objects)
(And More)
SONNET (motion)
Francesca Says More
“House” Is Being Cleared
Fragmentary
Just Now
Alaska Aubade (Summer)
Sight Unseen
SONNET (division)
To an Italian Ceiling
Mean and Manly and Meant
Fragmentary
Francesca Says Too Much
Francesca Can Too Stop Thinking about Sex, Reflect upon Her Position in Poetry, Write a Real Sonnet
Look at Lesbia Now!
It Is to Have or Nothing
SONNET (seized)
My Lover Asks Me to Consider
My Love Sent Me a List
Fragmentary
You Are Who
Once the Beauty Abishag
ALLOVER POEM
Least Said
Methow 19:19
Intempestive
Orpheus and Eurydice (2005)
Procession
Clearer Brighter Lighted Now
Neither Snow Shovel nor Hoe
Lyana Sick and Next to Her
My Geranium
Fragmentary
Show Up
Hello Poem
SONNET (full-court press)
Threshold
Note(s)
About the Author
Acknowledgments
1
Summer Fiction
My fancies fluttered round the same images
like martins round a bell tower at dawn.
I checked my e-mails, then, I checked them again:
lariat sweep and stallion glow.
Some one hour’s experience for which we
stubbornly subornatively return:
a dalliance at an execution.
Everything reduced to occasion
but