Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
I. In Landscapes of Stress &
Beauty
Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work
A Slightly Less Stressful Walk Uphill
Dawn Tercets, with Blake &
Nuthatch
Right Before Dusk, Some Meadow Fragments
A Goodness That Comes from Nothing
The Highest Part of the Dust
Poem Before the Power Went Out
Poem While the Power Was Out
&
After the Power Came Back
[interruption stichomythia]
People's Emotions in One City Block
After a Pageant, Before a Birth
Poem Describing Time to the Unborn
II. Activism &
Poetry-Some Brief Reports
The Times We Find Ourselves In
Activism &
Poetry-A Brief Report : :: :: :
In the Gardens of José Martí
Notes Outside West County Detention Center
[interruption stichomythia]
Among Some Anapests at Civic Center
Wiping Tear Gas off Young People
Report on Another Encounter in Nature
6 Views of Moss Dendroalsia Abietinum
[interruption stichomythia]
The American Burying Beetle
On the Molecules of Certain Ancestors
The Mostly Everything That Everyone Is
1967
III. There Are Many Women to Cherish
Winter Daybreak Stanzas for Our Daughters
The Closing of a Midtown Bookstore
A Pattern of Minutes During Illness
For Our Students Reading the Odyssey
The Working Sister of the Muses
Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial
[interruption stichomythia]
In Some Senses of the Word
Taking the Sunflower to the Mountains
After the Fires,,, In the Mountains,,,
S/kin
History of Punctuation on the Face
[collage essay]
IV. For Writers Who Are Having Trouble
A Feeling Right Before the Feeling
On Days When We Both Travel
[interruption stichomythia]
Concerning the Meaning Molecule in Poetry
The Child, Finishing Fourth Grade Online,.

The Scattering of the Lyric I
The Photograph of the Black Hole
[collage essay]
Her Map Might Change Its Arrows
[interruption stichomythia]
Dear emerging, pre-emerging &
post-emerging poets,
For One Who Paused Her Writing
To the Poets of Myanmar
::[an artist's sound, between the Farallones]::
[interruption stichomythia]
Winter Song for One Who Suffers
V. The Sickness &
the World Soul
:::[a ragged white moth passes by]:::
[at a hospital: in the east]
[little breath circles all across town]
[: : : at equinox, same 12 squares, window : : :]
[stayed busy inside moments of not]
:::[the invisible is full for you]:::
[in the split gardens irrational hope]
[poem on a birthday::: in shelter]
[trance poem with the gray stone]
[asyndeton of adenine cytosine guanine uracil]
:::[when spring dusk fills the garden]:::
:::[lines on Easter during the sickness]:::
[for the workers suddenly less employed]
::[untitled]::
:::[to the voice of the age]:::
::[in a place with no light]::
[ ________________ ]
:::[smooth black stone has seen everything]:::
[chiasmus with all the other animals]
:::[the voice of the age chorus]:::
[pinched nerve in my white arm]
[the hive interrogates the helpless hum]
[the fourth part of a triptych]
[untitled tableau]
VI. In a Few Minutes Before Later
Escape &
Energy
The ground of being is changed
Escape &
Logic
Punctuation at the end of time
Escape &
Song
Love &
Myth
The Themes in American Literature
During an enchantment in the life
Escape &
Speculation
Doubt &
Love
Escape &
Exeunt
Epithalamium for Anxiety &
Energy
On Hearing the Golden-crowned Sparrow
Acknowledgments
Notes
Back Cover.