Pine: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series

Prologue
11In a New Grief

Marquette
15Chorus of the Cold Weather Body Farm
17“What’s Your Name, and What City
Are You Calling From?”
19I just can’t remember who to send it to
20The Snowplows of My Hometown
22Winter Shore
23Over the Bridge at the Mouth of the Dead
24Maybe I’m Not Grieving Right
25Genesis
26Nagasaki, Marquette
28Hometown for the Summer
29Matins
30Common
31Twenty-Five Miles from Milk
32The Trees of Town
33Two Neighborhood Robins
34Tensile
35The Historic House Painter
36Samu as Cutting Wood a Winter Ahead
38When Something’s Good, Keep It

Glenelg and Grace in Distant Ruins
41The Still Voice Ruin
42Return
43The Glen
45Ancestry on Glenelg Bay
46Realism
47Glenelg Wedding Eve
48Among Ancestors’ Wild Summits
49After November, December
50My Brilliant Former Student and Friend Twenty
Years Younger than Me and Struggling to Find a
Meaningful Job Ended His Life in November
51Defenseless
52Reading Seferis at Sea
53Somewhere on the Ruins of Somewhere Else
54You Travel Awhile
55When I Think of Cathedrals
57Fade
59Wanting It to Count for More
61Sally Mann
62The Last Pregnancy Test
64Art
65In Nazaré for the Waves when Some Friends
Are Dying and Others Dead

The Farm, the Cabin, High Wildreness West
69Pine
71Route
87Cobweb in Winter
89Hypochondria Coping Strategy with Barn
90Unstacking the Wood
91Whose Name was writ in Water
92Valley of the Present Perfect
93the holiness of the Heart’s affection
94Among Riverbank Cottonwoods
95Amy