At Times by Brooke Horvath -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Acknowledgments Table of Contents from In a Neighborhood of Dying Light (1994)

The Woman in the Peter Pan Collar A Matter of Trees True Answers to Sincere Questions In Ohio Forcing Bed What in the World Were We Thinking Of? The Man with the Ax Domestic Violence Snapshot with Flowers Detroit Drops Two to Cleveland Bringing Stars Home Weathering March Why I Like Baseball

from Consolation At Ground Zero (1995)

The Smallest Cowgirl on Clark Street The Doll The Closet Posing Abrasion The Weed Puller Christmas Eve Mother and Child Reunion For Paul Pack, Manager of the Little League East Ohio Vending Team The Color of the Iris “The Bag of Life #38” Accademia: Florence Piazza San Marco: Venice Wild Poppies Cook’s Tour: Rome Tomorrow We Discuss Cottonwoods Evangelist with Child A Mary Haggadot

1. The Annunciation 2. Adoration of the Shepherds 3. Madonna of the Paintings 4. Landscape with Saint John 5. The Crucifixion 6. Christ Appearing to His Mother 7. Death of the Virgin

My Girl In the Neo-Natal Intensive-Care Unit Three Dead Birds The Encyclopædia Britannica Uses Down Syndrome to Define “Monster” Arkansas Funeral Alopecia Areata

1. No Other God Before Me 2. Sins of the Father 3. Every Hair Is Numbered

October Frost December Tulips Hello Christmas Morning Where Shade Comes Down A Dream of Stillness Poundian Conclusion to an Otherwise Ordinary Day Lake Glass Children in the Bedroom The Fourth Fact Consolation at Ground Zero

from The Lecture On Dust (2007)

The Lecture on Dust Reading the Tao Open Heart Reading The Gingerbread Man with My Daughter My Grandparents’ House July 5th Leaving the Neighborhood Robbing the Dead The Green One Plastic Fantastic Lovers The Man Beside Me Stir-Frying Winding My Watch A Penny for Her Thoughts Shining My Shoes Homeless Man in Mom’s Open Kitchen Paying the Rent Physical Vacationing Without You Interview with a Suicide Shoshaku Jushaku Calling Time Berry Picking Young Woman Caught Reading in an Easy Chair Riddle A Cardinal One Tuesday Poem Interrupted by Lack of Light The End of Modernism The Bull, the Dog, the Horse Men Playing Catch at the Beach Shekinah Ararat from the Flood Spring Night in Kent, Ohio The Leonids Weeds in Winter

New Poems

Prejudice Reincarnation (Un)Sexy Mearns Stag Hunt The Six Four Emotions History of a Shirt I Should Have Been a Painter Dying to See You Refugium I Thought We’d Never Get Over That First Album Spite Definition Old Tools The Three Great Ideas of Yacouba Sawadogo Two for Ko Un Snapshots of China “Team Up with Jesus” Job’s Dream Notes on a Wren Redbud Because of the Snow Still Life with Lamp and Dogs Courtship in Wartime Hoarding Walking the Beach The Driveway Political Poem Möbius Strip Poem Not with a Bang or a Whimper A Dove Two Robins Connect the Dots Leaf Squirrel The Man at the Dump Rainouts

Notes Index of Titles and First Lines