Blue Dusk by DeFrees, Madeline -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Note to Reader Dedication Contents New Poems: 2001

Going Back to the Convent Shackleton On Western Avenue behind a Horse-and-Buggy Through a Silver Screen Clematis montana Visiting Sunday: Convent Novitiate Almanac Elegy for Arnold The Paradise Tree Surgery Waiting Still Life Balancing Acts Memory Tract Metempsychosis Woman Locked in a Memorial Museum To Marilyn Monroe Whose Favorite Color Was White Scarecrow Gardens Peregrine Falcons in the Bank Tower Widows Riding Amtrak Sapphires in the Mud Hanging the Blue Nuns Double Dutch Vermeer’s A Woman Holding a Balance

from From the Darkroom: 1964

Requiem Mass: Convent Cemetery A Kind of Resurrection Nuns in the Quarterlies The Outsider Antique Convent Parlor Skid Row Long Day’s Journey into Bloomington Matinal Whitsunday Office From the Darkroom

from When Sky Lets Go: 1978

Baroque Lament The Shell In the Hellgate Wind The Family Group The Odd Woman Letter to an Absent Son A Woman Possessed Psalm for a New Nun Existing Light Driving Home Nights of flint and snow With a Bottle of Blue Nun to All My Friends Hope Diamonds

from Magpie on the Gallows: 1982

Slow-Motion Elegy for Kathy King Portofino Extended Outlook Hanging the Pictures The day you were leaving The Register Phobias Incorporated Aladdin Lamp Sanding the Chairs Beetle Light Picking Youngberries on Mr. Harvey’s Land Keeping Up with the Signs Gold Ring Triad

from The Light Station on Tillamook Rock: 1990

i. The Geologist’s Map ii. Power Failure iv. Sounding the Ocean v. The Return from New England vi. Breaching the Rock ix. The Columbarium: Everlasting Consideration xii. Geography as Warning xvi. Counting the Winter Dead xvii. The Book of Sediments

from Imaginary Ancestors: 1991

Stages of Family Life Honesty Grandmother Grant On My Father’s Side Clare of Assisi Gilbert of Sempringham The Woman with Fabled Hair Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) Galileo’s Case Reopened (1564–1642) Sister Maria Celeste, Galileo’s Daughter, Writes to a Friend Modern Primitives The Giraffe Women of Burma Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins Greta Garbo and the Star Messenger Maria Callas, the Woman Behind the Legend George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans Cross)

from Possible Sibyls: 1991

The Stirrups Crossarms In the middle of Priest Lake Blueprints Living by the Water Beside Mill River Dialogue Partly Platonic In the locker room Spiritual Exercises What I mistook for heather Shadegrown Tobacco In the Whirlpool The Widows of Mykonos Hagios Panaghiotes: The Church in Tolon The Garden of Botanical Delights

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