Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. A height of prairies 11
4. Billy 12
5. The lady gardener, Anne Szum 14
6. The voice of Anne 15
7. Sun 16
8. The Jesus poems 17
9. The body poems 24
10. The waters of life 30
11. What then is free? 31
12. The rote beads 32
13. The last day 33
14. I told you I could drive 34
15. Ila 35
16. A memory 36
17. Oh then 37
18. Gone large gone small 38
19. The dust of just beginning 39
20. For it’s love
21. Love poems 43
22. Mall 48
23. Body poems II, the black poet 49
24. Journey man
25. A fearful carnality 57
26. Lost and found 58
27. My road 59
28. The first day 60
29. Where are we going next year? 63
30. To the tax man 64
31. Journey man 65
32. You dream the poem 66
33. Tough terrain 67
34. Mind riding 68
35. Blue River 69
36. We are the echo
37. Kelly’s alley 73
38. Hunting rabbits 74
39. On the line 75
40. Summer south 76
41. Cousin Lynda 77
42. Water boy 78
43. We are the echo 79
44. This is the day nothing happens 80
45. Body idling over 81
46. To escape onto paper
47. Into the woods 85
48. Word off 86
49. Victim of story 87
50. At the end of his fifth whiskey 88
51. The dead tired poem 89
52. The anonymous clouds 90
53. Never start from here 91
54. Samuel Beckett 92
55. Acknowledgement[s] 95