The Woods Are on Fire by Brown, Fleda -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Ted Kooser Backfires I. from Fishing with Blood | 1988

Garden To Mark, My Retarded Brother, Who Lived 20 Years and Learned to Speak 300 Words Arch For Grandmother Beth A Plain Philosophical Choice Out Back Canoe Whaler Catching Turtles Fishing with Blood Apalachee Bay The Scholar’s Cat Saving a Life He Says How It Was Emily Dickinson’s Love Love, for Instance from “O’Keeffe”

She Learns to Walk She Learns to Talk A New Yorker Visits Her Exhibition She Marries the Photographer An Expert Explains Her Work

II. from Do Not Peel the Birches | 1993

Elvis at the End of History Do Not Peel the Birches A Long and Happy Life Learning to Dance After the Rain Loon Cries Night Swimming My Father Takes My Retarded Brother Sailing If I Were a Swan Dock A Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach Mississippi River, near Cape Girardeau, MO Mother of the Bride Dress St. Paul’s and St. George’s Church, Edinburgh Farthest North Southern Town Burdett Palmer’s Foot Kitty Hawk Anhinga Bombay Hook

III. from Breathing In, Breathing Out | 2002

Fourth of July Parade, Albion, WA Buying the King-Sized Bed Cosmic Pitching Somewhere Dogs Highway 5 The Poet Laureate Addresses the Delaware Legislature Opening Its First Session after September 11 Rumors of Changes Circulate on Penguins Cow Falling Spring Leaving Lewisburg Mary Rose Quotes James Joyce on the Cliffs at Bray Sunday Morning Chicken Bone Hyperspace Language Chat For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997 Your Body I Write My Mother a Poem Einstein on Mercer Street

IV. from The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives | 2004

Tillywilly Fog I Escape with My Mother in the DeSoto Elvis Aron and Jesse Garon Memphis Discovers Elvis Elvis Goes to the Army Shaking Hands with Nixon Sputnik, 1957 Elvis Sings Gospel Industrial Teflon Comes into Use for Kitchen Pots and Pans Bus Stop The Night before Her Third Marriage, She Watches a Rerun of Elvis’s Comeback Performance Elvis Acts as His Own Pallbearer Mrs. Louise Welling Spots Elvis at Harding’s Market I Visit the Twenty-Four Hour Coin-Op Church of Elvis Elvis Reads “The Wild Swans at Coole” from “Graceland”

Elvis’s Bedroom Lisa Marie’s Favorite Chair The Mirrored Stairwell The Meditation Garden

V. from Reunion | 2007

If Names Started Coming Loose Biology Lesson What It Was Like Fayetteville Junior High Knot Tying Lessons: The Slipknot Makeup Regimen Mouse Trillium Small Boys Fishing under the Bridge Light Ode to the Buffman Brothers Wild Lily of the Valley No Heron Knot Tying Lessons: The Perfection Knot Knife Bladder Campion The Death of Cleone Poem for Our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary Through Security Lady’s Slipper

VI. from Loon Cry: Selected and New Michigan Poems | 2010

Scavengers Crouching Hawsers Wild Turkeys Deer Northern Pike Chicory

VII. from No Need of Sympathy | 2013

Year of the Tent Caterpillars For, Or, Nor Sugar, Sugar The Purpose of Poetry The Kayak and the Eiffel Tower My Father and Hemingway Go Fishing Roofers Hare’s Breath God, God Dancing at Your Wedding Child Labor Here, in Silence, Are Eight More Short History of Music Big Bang Worms Felled Tree Translation Building a Cathedral Talk Radio Fourteen Lines

VIII. New Poems

The Swan Flies Straight at Me Elegance Unfurl The Undoing News On a Day That Bombs Feeding the Maggots Bees Taxol Cancer Support Group with Painting by Monet Snoring Lesson Mute Swan Tulips The Elk Farm Edward Hopper’s Automat Silence What Happens Fawn Wheel The War Pike Muskrat Tiny Fish Every Day I Touch Things View from Space The Gospel Truth Speed Blueweed Refrigerator Poem for Record Players The Sex Life of Anacondas The Bar Mitzvah Mummy Exhibit Caterpillars Getting Free July 20, 1944 Wild Asian Carp Grateful Protection Cedar Waxwing The Poem I Was Going to Write Reading the Smithsonian Magazine Surrounded by People I Say Your Name Five Moons Mushrooms

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