table of dis- mal- contents

dedication

sweet reader, flanneled and tulled

the sonnets

small quilled poem with no taste for spring

may be you are like me: scared and awake

in the clear long after

march licked me with all his brown lack

shattered sonnet #3

dear abiah

a small number

the lais of lost long days

june twenty seven eight nine nineteen sixty seventy ninety six seven eight

wow

six apologies, lord

the unbosoming

of yawl and ketch

in one of my

dis-spelt

quain

to dante and cavalcanti and you

she (as sonnet)

letters to various personages

the true repertory of the wrack and redemption of sir olena kalytiak davis

dear beardtongue

letter home

poem convincing you to leave your wife

keep some stuff for yourself

to love

other importunities

a new philosophy of composition or how to ignore the non-reasoning creature capable of speeech perched outside your bathroom window

you art a scholar horatio, speak to it

moorings far faster

despite ominous forebodings of sin sickness and death

il penseroso and l'allegro: inverted and dubbed

poem for my #*th birthday

notes toward the ablation of the soul

sign offs

a dry death

sign off #1

sign off #2

another sign off

aloft in a tangerine cloud

the o antiphons

o great slacker

this is the kind of poem i'm done writing, or, a small pang in spring

the garden of love

stripped from the waist up, love

if you are asked

forgoodisthelifeendingfaithandfitfully

About the Author

Books by Olena Kalytiak Davis

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