Author:
Plumly, Stanley.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Description96 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Butterflies -- Spirit birds -- Mercy -- Elevens -- Magpie -- Missing the jays -- Still missing the jays -- Debt -- Childhood -- Keatsian -- Simile -- Paraphrase of the parable of the Prodigal Son -- Meeting Mr. Cole -- The treason of Terese Svoboda -- Panegyric for the plane tree fallen on Fifth Avenue -- Bill's hangover -- When he fell backwards into his coffin -- For Jan Palach, a name drawn by lot, on the anniversary of his death the third day after attempted self-immolation in protest of Communist occupation of Czechoslovakia, January 19, 1969 -- Against narrative -- Pastoral -- Meander -- Off a side road near Staunton -- The woman who shoveled the sidewalk -- Birding -- Fishing drunk -- Sweat -- Silent heart attack -- John 6:17 -- Passerine -- Hermeticism -- Ted Hughes's Collected poems -- "The morning America changed" -- Long companions -- Gene Tierney -- Nostalgia -- Johnson helicopters into Dayton -- Audubon aviary -- Slowing to look at a deer lying in the grass near an entrance to the beltway -- Old debt -- Autumnal -- Monostichs -- Early and late in the month -- Greensboro campus sonnet -- Samuel Scott's A sunset, with a view on nine elms.
