Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. Come Take These Words from Me 3
4. A Sigh for Avila 4
5. What Indices have Blurred Me 5
6. Showings 6
7. We Pass and They Pass and Slow the World Abides 11
8. August Singularity 12
9. Looking for My Father: Christopher Smart, John Clare 13
10. Recovery 14
11. Out of Brightness Hailstones, Coals of Fire 15
12. Thus I Am Called, Thresher to the Fields 16
13. Touching Home 18
14. Remembering the Family Homestead, Which is Now an Industrial Park 19
15. How the Soil Dampens for the Loss of Thee 20
16. Untitled 21
17. She Called Your Name Over and Over Then Died They Said 22
18. In the Lexicon of Rain 23
19. Soft, as When a Body Struck 24
20. As I Set Merton Back into the Fire 25
21. Sacerdotes Domini 26
22. A Man Enters the Room He Has Forgotten 27
23. Album 28
24. Untitled 36
25. Summer’s Ornament 37
26. September 38
27. Patience 39
28. Visitation at the Ashford Motel 40
29. Untitled 41
30. Trying to Remember 42
31. The Flame-Front I Maintain is for This Tinder Only 43
32. Do My Bells Ring Hourly in the White Air that Surrounds You? 44
33. Untitled 45
34. Something is Always Saying Hello 46
35. Now 47
36. Last Moth Before Winter 48
37. Listening to Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina 49
38. Acknowledgments 50