Kingdom animalia: poems 9781934414682, 1934414689
i. A book of dirt : Kingdom animalia ; Elegy ; Abuelo, mi muerto ; Dear Minnie, dear ms. ; Small letter ; Zewdit ; Starl
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English Pages 119 pages Year 2011
Table of contents :
i. A book of dirt : Kingdom animalia
Elegy
Abuelo, mi muerto
Dear Minnie, dear ms.
Small letter
Zewdit
Starlight multiplication
Night
On living --
ii. A book of beautiful monsters : Swans, as the light was changing
For Patrick Rosal who wore a dress & said
March, March
Noche de lluvia, San Salvador
La boda del mar y arena
A blooming tree
St. Elizabeth
&
Ode to the little "r"
Running home, I saw the planets --
iii. A book of graves & birds : Science
The dream
Self-portrait as the snail
Elegy for the stone
Portrait of the woman as a skein
Three girls, one of them a coward girl
Self-portrait as the snake
Self-portrait as the airplane
Central City Senior Center, New Orleans
Self portrait as the pirate's gold
Self-portrait as the snake's skin
To the husband
This morning the small bird brought a message from the other side --
iv. A book of erased cities : Elegy in gold
They tell me you are gone
The doorway of our mother's leg leads me to you, brother
Mrs. S
Night, for Henry Dumas
Break
English class
Mississippi burial, on the ferry to Algiers
Explaining the land mine to the small child
To waste my hands
Praise song for the donkey
I am not ready to die yet
& when we woke
On kindness --
v. A fable : On the shape of the sentence --
vi. The book of one small thing : Ars poetica.
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