CONTENTS
1.
First Warm Day in a College Town
Cow Tipping
We’d Been Drinking Champagne When I Found It
Souvenir
2.
Berthe Morisot: Retrospective
3.
Elegy for the Footie Pajamas
The Mommy at the Zoo
Because People Ask What My Daughter Will Think of My Poems When She’s 16
To JC and DL on the Opening of the Sestina Bar
4.
The Kudzu Chronicles
5.
Not Knowing What He’s Missing
I Provide for You, Boy Child, Like God
Poem in the Ninth Month
Of Two Minds
6.
Say You Waved: A Dream Song Cycle
7.
The River That Was My Father
When Did You Know You Wanted to Be a Writer?
Eleven Questions
The Welcoming
Notes
Acknowledgments