Contents
I. from Years That Answer
Body and Soul
Caving
What Grief Does
The Keener
For the Anniversary of My Father’s Death
Reflections in My Mind
Owl with Young
Complex of Birds
Daphne
Dancing in the Evening Sun
II. from Cold Comfort
Country Wisdoms
House and Graveyard, Rowlesburg, West Virginia, 1935
Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia, 1935
Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, 1935
Spitting in the Leaves
Related to the Sky
The Wash in My Grandmother’s Arms
Cemetery, Saint Josephs Settlement
With Wine
The Thing You Must Remember
In My Mother’s House
In Singing Weather
Heart Fire
Anything We Leave Forever
III. from A Space Filled with Moving
Ontological
Empirical
Marginal
Anywhere But Here
Heart Labor
Sonnet for Her Labor
Holding the Family Together
Long Story
Closed Mill
Abandoned Farm, Central Pennsylvania
Beyond Even This
The Invention of Pittsburgh
Big Romance
As Long As I Can
Wild Berries
Setting Out
The Only Angel
IV. New Poems
Knife
Interior with Letter
The Sleep Writer
Black Dog Remembers
The Game
Black Dog Lies Down
Black Dog Goes to Art Colony
Report from Here
Late Apology
The Border
Foreign
In Translation
Where
Literary
Self-Portrait
In the Midst of Our Happiness
What She Wrote
My First Yiddish Poem
These Greens
Notes
Acknowledgments