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