Cover -- Contents -- I. Fall Risk -- [mine eyes dry & -- cannot see have] -- "corpses like night soil / get carted off" -- it was a common night -- household tales -- morrow, morrow, valentine -- witchspeak -- burn permit -- burnt offering -- fall...
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Cover -- Contents -- I. Fall Risk -- [mine eyes dry & -- cannot see have] -- "corpses like night soil / get carted off" -- it was a common night -- household tales -- morrow, morrow, valentine -- witchspeak -- burn permit -- burnt offering -- fall risk -- coming, mama, t o carry -- recurrence -- the palace -- "in the old time, they used to putt a penny in the dead persons mouth" -- the child breaks a glass of milk -- ii. ordinary time -- "in your absence there are no mortal banquets." -- measure of ordinary time -- for my mother whose mother is ill -- "let the quick then cast f orth the dead" -- blood lines -- "she died - this was the way she died." -- primer -- iii. night burial -- [quiet & -- you are not among the] -- [look upon your servant] -- [thanksgiving I sat with her] -- [fled to the woods] -- [my other grandmother has stopped sewing.] -- [after the rains a path of needles,] -- [just wear it] -- [how to know someone is dying?] -- [in the opera, Manon speaks] -- [keen & -- cry out for the] -- [my husband holds my hand] -- [my mother fell into a sleep] -- [for one minute] -- [dhe left the room & -- she stopped breathing] -- [enter Mary] -- [daughters sing from the backseat] -- [on foot my daughters aim stiff-arms, a Stop!] -- [give me haint blue inside of which] -- [when she came home] -- [I am mad at you] -- [you, she, we, I can't,] -- [night burial, a winter sky, a winter ground] -- [you lie here do] -- [an ancient loop-someone] -- [your mother dies.] -- iv. the former object of my every thing -- "for this daie your daughter hathe bene bothe alive and deade" -- transcendental étude -- gallery -- primer -- to lay sod on a grave -- the former object of my everything -- notes -- acknowledgments.
