Where Now · New and Selected Poems by Kasischke, Laura -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Note to Reader Dedication Contents The Owls One: New Poems

Ubi sunt? The Whole Disasters Involving Dictionaries Loved Me Green Two Men & a Truck Pandora’s Cellar Shadow The Breath The Hourglass The Enormous Cage The Wall For the Return of the Bee My Father’s Stoicism The Widows’ Neighborhood What I Learned in Ninth Grade The Sound of Icicles Broken Off the Eaves

Two: from The Infinitesimals

Binoculars The Second Trumpet At the End of the Text, a Small Bestial Form Mushrooms This Is Not a Poem/Fairy Tale Boy in Park You’ve Come Back to Me The Common Cold May Morning Ivan Oblivion Perspective Door For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike In This Order Milk Tree Masks The Accident The Invalid

Three: from Space, in Chains

Your last day Hospital parking lot, April At the public pool Riddle The call of the one duck flying south My beautiful soul The photograph album in the junk shop Memory of grief Time The knot Love poem My son practicing the violin View from glass door O elegant giant The inner workings Look They say We watch my father try to put on his shirt Stolen shoes Near misses Cigarettes My son makes a gesture my mother used to make Riddle Briefly Space, in chains Home O elegant giant

Four: from Lilies Without

Prayer At Gettysburg I Am the Coward Who Did Not Pick Up the Phone Miss Post-Apocalypse The Thigh Elegy Miss Estrogen My Father’s Closet May Stroke The Bad Teacher Miss Consolation for Emotional Damages Fashion Victim Poem Ending in Lines from Jarrell Miss Congeniality War with Toy Soldiers Miss Weariness New Dress Miss Brevity

Five: from Gardening in the Dark

Alcoholism The Internet Black Dress “Today, a Thief Who Stole Beehives, Hanged” Speeding Ticket The Second Week of May Macaroni & Cheese Forest World Peace Inscriptions on Wax Tablets Sacred Flower Watching Me Hardware Store in a Town without Men Eighteen Days of Rain Inscriptions on Wax Tablets 159 Happy Meal

Six: from Dance and Disappear

Clown Please Buffalo Spontaneous Human Combustion: An Introduction Bike Ride with Older Boys Guide to Imaginary Places: X-Ray Small Boys Petting Caterpillar The Visibility of Spirits Executioner as Muse Oven Green Bicycle Guide to Imaginary Places: Back of the North Wind My Son in the Cereal Aisle Guide to Imaginary Places: Abaton Joy Spontaneous Human Combustion: “Girl, Kissing, Bursts into Flames” Kitchen Song

Seven: from Fire & Flower

Do Not Leave Baby Unattended Hostess Dear Earth The Cause of All My Suffering Wolves Confections Prayer Dear Water What I Hear in Your Hair A Long Commute Barney Dear Fire Burial Infants’ Corner Dear Air Fire & Flower

Eight: from What It Wasn’t

Night Cocktail Waitress Childhood Visions of Beautiful Women Roxy’s Bordello, Boarded Up Andy’s Lanes & Lounge Woman in a Girdle What It Wasn’t WARNING: Sad Song Recollection Morning

Nine: from Housekeeping in a Dream

House Fable Tribe of Women Crow’s Feet Babysitter Parrot, Fever Crow’s Feet Fatima Crow’s Feet Ravine Exploding Homes Natural Selection Crow’s Feet Aqua

Ten: from Wild Brides

The Cyclone The Driver’s Lullaby Hymn from the House of Trouble Timespan The Sorceress and the Wife Bells of Ice Solomon Grundy Woman Kills Sweetheart with Bowling Ball To Whom It May Concern Rosebush Palm Godmother’s Advice

Eleven: New Poems

House to House Spies Innocence The Names of the Trees The Face Rockefeller Plaza Champagne Ubi sunt On the Properties of Summer Pandora’s Mouth In the Meantime The Guestbook Delirium Sensual Pleasures March Envelope Addressed to Me with Your Return Address The Hunt Praying Mantis in My Husband’s Salad Bored Girl Spits into an Abyss Daysleep

About the Author Books by Laura Kasischke Acknowledgments Copyright Special Thanks

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