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Blood Orbits
Ger Killeen
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Killeen, Ger, 1960-
Blood orbits / Ger Killeen.
p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)
ISBN 978-1-60235-123-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-124-0 (adobe ebook)
I. Title.
PR6061.I35B56 2009
821’.914--dc22
2009032567
Cover art: Excavation I. Acrylic on Paper. © 2007 by Saba H. Qizilbash. Use by permission.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Introduction to the Topography of Oregon
In the Margin of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
One Negative Way Of Looking At A Blackbird
1. An Excellent Observation of the Sun in Quicksilver
2. Comparing the Merits of the Two Routes
3. In England There Is Nothing New
4. Hereabout the Larch Trees End
5. One Small Repeating Reflecting Circle
6. Reasons for My Engaging Hope as a Steersman
7. The Coruscation Reassumed the Horseshoe Form
8. Numerous Stone Marks and Several Caches
10. The Translation of Her Indian Name Is Burnt Weed
11. The Shingly Point of which I Have Spoken