Table of Contents
Also by Eric Pankey
Title Page
Dedication
I.
The Sacrifice
A Bird Loose in the House
The Place of Skulls
Prayer
Edge of Things
The Calling of the Elect to Heaven
Ritual
The Truth of Scripture
The Creation of Adam
As of Yet
Works and Days
Primitive Water
Models of Paradise
II.
The Burning House
Moon Phases Carved on a Bone
Southern Elegy
Cogitatio Mortis
Out-of-the-Body
The Repeated Image
A Stone to Place on a Cairn
Archaic Reverie
Trace
Objects and Mementos
A Line Made by Walking
The Passing Moment
The Last Word
III.
Cold Mountain Meditations
Bluffs Above the Missouri
The Dead Go Down to the Stygian Waters
Waking Hungover in a Field, 1979
Diptych with Fox and Hawk
Throne of the Ancestors
The House We Left Behind
Six Cast Hexagrams
Anhedonia
Distances
To Dwell in Thought
Sober Then Drunk Again
Acknowledgments
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