Sandra McPherson is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of numerous poetry collections, including A Visit to Civilization.
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Contents
I
Grouse
Beach Journal, May: Dune Census
"Through Lace Curtains, Ravens" (Pasternak)
Gospel Disinclined
I Was Young and Working by the Ship Locks
Officer and Gentleman and a Small Heroic Order
Precipice, Rush, Sheath
Two Young Trees Bending in Strong Wind
On Being Transparent: Cedar Rapids Airport
Lucid Dreaming: Oxycodone
II
Containers
Living with an Urn
Bereavement: Leaving the Radio on All Night for Company
Bereavement: 1919
Pre-Op Room
Muses for Panic
Suicidology
Mourning, Ninth Month
Post-Op, Medical Humanities
Fox: A Memory of My Husband
III
Cabawaguni Scarecrow, Dang Region, Nepal
Do-It-Yourselfer's Ghazal
Expectation Days
Blossom River Drive
Children of the Village
Schoolchildren, 2000 and 1848
The Mexican Acrobat
IV
Virtue Study: "It was his first"
Virtue Study: Pastoral
Virtue Study: Samma Vaca
Virtue Study: Teachings
Virtue Study: Happy Hour
Virtue Study: Blues Society
V
Chicory at Night
Diary: Day of Rest
To a Book of Needles, 1918
The Bat by Porch Light
Hibakusha
Poem for a Late Birthday
How to Read an Aerial Map
On Suicide Watch
Autumn on a Small Tree
Surfaces, Central Valley, 109°
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