Winter Sky : New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes in Lieu of Preface -- 2003 - 2008 NEW POEMS -- The Center -- Extravagance -- The Light in Everyone's Eyes -- As the Dew -- From There ain't nothing like it. -- On Spirit -- FROM SCRAP WOOD MAN (2007) -- Guidance We Have Need Of -- Reading in Bed -- From Notebooks -- Wine Poems -- The Speed of Consciousness and August 18th -- Car Trips -- The Return of Professor Dumwhistle -- These Winter Skies -- Losing It -- American College Students Overheard in a Restaurant After I Return from Afghanistan -- Just This Once -- From Central Asian Sufis and the Nature of the Heart -- 1978-2002 FROM TENTMAKING (2002) -- Tentmaking -- Purring -- Divination -- Book Tour Cure for Talking Too Much in Public -- Question -- Bill Matthews Coming Along -- Black Rubber Ball -- Bridge -- Luke and the Duct Tape -- Whittling -- Spring Morning -- Light on Leaves -- The Ant -- Abscission Leaf, Looking into Water -- Silo, Spring Violets -- The Final Final -- Currycombing -- Donald Hall Is Falling Down -- The Animal -- So Close, Not a Foot -- Love for Clouds -- 1971 and 1942 -- None Other -- Fly -- Stone -- Lard Gourd -- The Railing -- What We Learn from Literature -- These Very Feet -- The Look on the Dog's Face -- Grace -- Service -- The Saint and Sinner Bullshit -- Fine Arts Auditorium -- Night Train, Southern France -- Kingsnake -- Driving Back from the Mountains -- Straying -- Elegy for John Seawright -- FROM CLUB: GRAND DAUGHTER POEMS (2001) -- No Finale -- Club -- Wietien -- To Make an Ocean -- Auspices -- Boxkite -- Dumb Chess -- Glad -- In Opening Game Day Traffic -- Poetry for Children -- FROM GOURD SEED (1993) -- A Wish -- A Section of the Oconee Near Watkinsville -- Buttermilk -- The House of the Tibetan Bellmaker -- Higdon Cove -- The Great Blue Heron -- In the Woods, You and I -- Fried Green Tomato Sandwiches.

A Walk in the Botanical Gardens -- Bedclothes -- Titty-Bream -- Summer Food -- Kindling -- The Fire -- The Wind Today -- Orange Circles on Lavender Wings -- Let the Door Be Locked -- Hymenoptera -- Some Orange Juice -- WRFC -- Walk Soup -- Each Peach -- The Tree -- Audience -- Spring Lizards -- The Grocery Store -- Vigil Notes -- New Year's Day Nap -- Darshan Singh and Christian Harmony -- Small Talk: Coffee -- The Second Mike Poem -- Three -- Every Evening -- The End of the Sentence -- The Fucking Grave -- Salt -- Becoming Milton -- Two-Hour Wait in Toronto -- Night Creek -- An Up-Till-Now-Uncelebrated Joy -- These Things, Hereafter -- Sleet -- The Brain-House -- Carolina Silverbells -- Fightingtown Creek -- Gourd Day -- A Hard-Cuss for Gourd Seed -- 1967-1977 FROM WE'RE LAUGHING AT THE DAMAGE (1977) -- Good night. -- Snow. -- Putting up a bowl, its true resting -- A flame is walking -- This is how we'd like -- FROM NEW WORDS (1976) -- Sunbath in May -- The Last Rebirth -- The Hall Mirror -- Sand -- New Words -- FROM THE JUICE (1972) -- Body Poems-Big Toe -- Stomach -- Elbow -- Cheek -- Heart -- Brain -- Appendix -- Knuckles -- Navel -- Shoulder Blades -- Jaw -- Upper Lip -- Adam's Apple -- Small of the Back -- Crown of the Hair -- Tongue -- Bags Under the Eyes -- Nape -- Jowl -- Ear Lobe -- Thighs -- Achilles Tendon -- Wrist -- Hips -- Eye -- Blood -- Semen -- Cavities -- Roof of the Mouth -- Middle Finger -- Genitals -- Skull -- Spine -- Coccyx -- Blind Spot -- Lymph -- Scar -- Pelvis -- Buttocks -- Inner Ear -- Goosepimples -- Liver -- Haunches -- Back of the Knee -- Dimple -- Sleep -- Spleen -- Fingertips -- Armpit -- Uvula -- Taste Buds -- Spoor -- Yawn -- Tic -- Nostrils -- Blush -- Halfgainer, Halftwist -- Spit 'n Image -- Hands -- Rice -- Caul -- Shadow -- Bosoms -- Balls -- Birthmark -- Sound Made by Snapping the Fingers -- Choosing.

Goat &amp -- Boy -- Five Ways Down Stringer's Ridge -- The Literal Snake -- The Afterlife -- The Oracle -- Nickajack Cave -- The Finger of Necessity -- The Mule -- The African Night Adder -- The Flag Page -- Taking a Nap Underneath My Desk -- Keats -- The Swim -- Notes.

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