Across the Border -- The Short Song of What Befalls -- Wheelchairs That Kneel Down Like Elephants -- Night Shift -- Words Like Fate and Pain -- Slow Freight -- Stranded -- The Prisoner -- Pointing to the Place of the Pain -- What Happened to You? -- That Other Life -- Not Down Here -- Rest Near Evening -- Protect Yourself From This -- What Comes Next -- The Way to be Immortal -- Ontological Relativity -- Flatlanders -- The Visitant -- First Year Teaching, Boston -- Levels of Being -- Inside, Outside -- Loving the Clay -- A Hunger in the Mind Like Texas -- Roses Red in the Dark -- The Perfect Image of Freedom -- Tableau Vivant -- Dog at the Goodbye -- Beginning to Write -- A Sadness Deep as the Atchafalaya -- Teaching Myself to Read -- Implicature -- Speaking to Gingerware -- Early Platonism -- Lifelines -- The Word 'Class' Should Not Appear in the Poem -- What Keeps Me Here -- The Problem of Personal Identity -- Just Before the Dove Begins to Call -- Forsan et Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit -- The Painful Kingdom of Time and Place -- Children Burned in Midnight Fire, Story at Eleven -- Declension from Blue -- Afternoon Nap with Pain Meds -- Dreaming the Tree of Life -- "I Will Not Let Thee Go Except I Bless Thee" -- In Praise of the Visible World -- The Power to Survive -- That Lighter Journey We Begin at the End.
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