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| Introduction | |
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| Dedication | |
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| What the Stones Know | |
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| Years of Solitude | |
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| Orange Juice | |
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| The Wren | |
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| My Father's Coat | |
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| David | |
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| My Father in the Stacks | |
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| Battleground State Park | |
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| Nine | |
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| Emergency Situation | |
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| The Ants Are Using Sticks for Walls | |
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| The Changeling | |
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| The Father, Who Could Not Swim | |
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| Son, Skating | |
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| The New Blade | |
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| Teenagers | |
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| Devotion | |
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| Custody | |
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| Mother's Day | |
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| Waking Instructions | |
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| Simple Song of Being Oneself | |
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| I Myself | |
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| And sometimes i hear this song in my head | |
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| Shedding Skin | |
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| Song of the Prodigal Son | |
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| Aqueducts | |
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| Invisibility | |
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| Breath | |
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| Almost Evenly Divided | |
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| At Home | |
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| Child Proof | |
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| Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten | |
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| Bittersweet | |
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| First Grade | |
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| The New World | |
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| The Forest of My Hair | |
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| Returning to the West: Mountain Legend | |
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| Drifter, Owl, Mouse | |
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| Kind | |
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| Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule | |
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| That Was the Summer We Had Animals | |
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| Lens | |
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| Sudden | |
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| Organdy Curtains, Window, South Bank of the Ohio | |
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| On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know | |
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| What Grandma Taught Her | |
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| Seeing for You | |
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| Leaving the Light On | |
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| What We Want | |
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| What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute | |
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| Silence | |
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| What Gets Lost/Lo Que Se Pierde | |
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| Naming | |
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| The Higher Reaches | |
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| Here yet be dragons | |
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| Learning Persian | |
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| Driving | |
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| The Sparrow and the Crumb | |
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| Other Lives | |
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| Hitchhiker | |
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| The Family Car | |
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| "I never saw the road between our ..." | |
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| So Far | |
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| Travelling Light | |
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| Legend | |
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| Stranded | |
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| Today I'll Sit Still | |
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| This Isn't Fair | |
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| "Someone told me you were in love ..." | |
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| Insurance | |
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| "What are friends for, my mother asks..." | |
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| Going Home | |
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| That Kind of Marriage | |
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| She had thought | |
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| Divorce | |
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| My lost father | |
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| It Was Here-- | |
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| Mindleaving | |
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| Shrink-wrapped | |
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| Where on This Earth | |
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| Garage Sale | |
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| Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say | |
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| Journey | |
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| What Came to Me | |
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| Benavides, Texas, 1906 | |
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| Letter to an Ancestor | |
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| The House at 5 Allende Street | |
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| Barns Collapsing | |
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| Dream House | |
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| Small Town | |
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| What Was Once Reached For | |
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| Father, Herald Me Home | |
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| The Lost Glove Is Happy | |
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| A Serenade | |
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| A Game Nobody Won | |
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| My Grandmother Told Us Jokes | |
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| The Mentalist Leaves the Stage | |
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| Part | |
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| Plum Trees | |
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| Work | |
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| Sister | |
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| The Question | |
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| My Valhalla | |
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| The colors of Another Home | |
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| Fame | |
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| Tutu on the Curb | |
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| Passing Necessity | |
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| Any Morning | |
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| Tough Ride | |
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| Unveiling the Vietnam Memorial | |
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| Thinking of What the Jury Is Deliberating | |
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| I Give You Back | |
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| Food. Music. Memory | |
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| The Memory Prayer | |
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| Raised Voices | |
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| Lament | |
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| Model of the Heart at the Franklin Institute | |
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| Each Night | |
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| Waking Up in the Morning | |
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| Truth | |
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| Regrets on the Way to an Airport | |
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| Processes | |
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| Ghazal (For William Stafford) | |
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| Autumn Quince | |
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| Cannon Beach | |
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| Christmas | |
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| Avalanche | |
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| Year's End | |
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| How Forgetting Works in Late Winter | |
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| Secret of Life | |
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| Tune | |
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| Something I Remember | |
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| The Moment for Which There Is No Name | |
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| Letter to Terry Dobson | |
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| Obituaries | |
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| The Black and the Dazzle | |
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| Valencia Street | |
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| Wilderness Poem | |
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| Dreaming Them Into the World Again | |
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| Notes on the Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index to Losses | |
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| Index to Poems | |
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| Index to Poets | |