A Gray Realm the Ocean: Poets Out Loud

Foreword, by Patricia Spears Jones | xi
Incognita | 1
Spirit Level | 3
¿Night Seä | 4
Like Somewhere in Saskatchewan | 5
She Would Not Say Her Work is the Work of Turning | 7
¿Lemon Tree¿ | 8
¿Milk River¿ | 9
Sufficing | 10
Abstraction | 11
Reading Nautical Maps | 12
¿Mountains and Seä | 13
¿The Bay¿ | 15
`Womb-of-All, Home-of-All, Hearse-of-All Night¿ | 17
A Clear Jar | 18
White | 19
¿La Grande Vallée XIII¿ | 21
¿Sunflower III¿ | 23
Sub-Linguistic Mumbling | 24
Interior 1963 | 26
If | 28
Cartography | 30
Show Me an Angel | 31
Star River Night 33
Alma Thomas¿s ¿Orion¿ Is | 35
¿Spiral Leap¿ | 37
Motion and Cessation | 38
At Sea | 40
Night Forms | 41
Night Vision | 43
¿Femme-Maison¿ | 44
Irascible | 46
The Wall | 47
Fire | 48
After the Burning of Flood Christian Church in Ferguson, MO: An Exploded View | 49
The Melancholy of the Actual World | 51
Why Seek the Dead Among the Living? | 52
`It Remains to Be Seen¿ | 53
Quick and Still | 54
Seismography | 56
The Coriolis Effect | 58
¿Uninvited Collaboration¿ | 59
Afloat | 60
Whole Cloth | 61
¿Cranoch Glen¿ | 63
Looking | 65
¿Character Set¿ | 67
The Provenance of Color | 69
Black on Black | 70
Sea and Grass | 71
Afterword | 72
Notes | 75
Acknowledgments | 81