Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Part One
6. Gathering Him In 5
7. Rain Turning to Snow 6
8. Feral Kittens 7
9. Missing 8
10. For Nadja 9
11. Gradual Clearing 10
12. Ladybug 11
13. Taking off My Cross 12
14. Kiss, Afterward 13
15. Dog, Napping 14
16. Happiness 15
17. Magnolia 16
18. Rapunzel Descending 17
19. Part Two
20. Respects 21
21. Mother’s Goldfish 22
22. I Liked My Mother Best 23
23. Bad Dog Man 24
24. Underneath 25
25. Saturday Mornings, 1954 26
26. By the Lake 27
27. Remembering Stars 28
28. Square Dance, 1956 29
29. Cello Lessons 30
30. The Correction 31
31. Midas Alone 32
32. Vigil 33
33. Chagall’s Floating Woman 34
34. Personal Effects 35
35. Unafraid 36
36. Mother 37
37. Urn 38
38. Part Three
39. Cold Front 41
40. Midas’s Daughter at Fifty 42
41. Aging Nude 43
42. Lines on a Window 44
43. Cinderella at Work 45
44. Thaw 46
45. Antiphon 47
46. Lighters and Knives 48
47. The Clothesline Project 49
48. White Shirt 50
49. Eve In Exile 51
50. Nowhere Near Bethlehem 52
51. Magdalene Bathing 53
52. Should This Become Ordinary 54
53. Old Dog 55
54. Remains 56
55. Silent Night 57
56. Blessing at the End of Time 58
57. Pyre 59
58. Where She Always Was 60
59. Benediction 61
60. About the Author 63
61. The May Swenson Poetry Award 65