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Contraries -- - Your mother forbids you to leave the yard -- - That year -- - Ghazal of the past -- - Late one Friday afternoon -- - A good idea -- - Primary lessons -- - Trying to get it right -- - Sorry -- - Her best note -- - Cradle and all -- - Washing the breakfast dishes, I decide -- - Villanelle for Gertrude Stein -- - Alterations -- - Mother, washing dishes -- - October song -- - My mother, her mornings -- - Daughter -- - An early spring morning of my mother's decline -- - Selling my mother's house -- - Her porch, her yard -- - October, what the mountains say -- - Still water -- - Something green, for my mother -- - Weather -- - Someone near is dying -- - Prayer -- - Cavities -- - Emergency room -- - Fifty-four days -- - Breath -- - Sweetgum in January
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Trying to Get It Right; Contraries; Your Mother Forbids You to Leave the Yard; That Year; Ghazal of the Past; Late One Friday Afternoon; A Good Idea; Primary Lessons; Trying to Get It Right; Sorry; Her Best Note; Cradle and All; Washing the Breakfast Dishes, I Decide; Villanelle for Gertrude Stein; Alterations; Mother, Washing Dishes; October Song; My Mother, Her Mornings; Daughter; Need Has Nothing to Do with It; An Early Spring Morning of My Mother's Decline; Selling My Mother's House; Her Porch, Her Yard; October, What the Mountains Say
Still WaterSomething Green, for My Mother; Weather; Someone Near Is Dying; Prayer; Cavities; Emergency Room; Fifty-four Days; Breath; Sweetgum in January; What the Season Has Come To; Hat of Many Goldfinches; Small Bones of Contention; A Counting; Morning Song; Guitar; The One Place; The Catch; Key West Elegy; Shelling: Ars Poetica; Fisher's Luck; Fishing the Edisto; Awaiting My Brother's Pathology Report, My Husband and I Take to the River; Koi; Out in the Cold with the Crows; Counting on the Slightest Chance; Small Bones of Contention; How the Living Worry; Our Manifold Sins
Love Poem Gone AstrayPlanting, the Second Year; The Wheelbarrower; Neither the Season, Nor the Place; Keep and Give Away
