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Mark Rhoads. No Gathering In of this Incense
No Gathering In of this Incense
Acknowledgments
Part One: Iconic Virtue
Our Old Chevy Had No Radio
The Seed of Me
Iconic Virtue
Snow
I Would Step into the Wooden Boat
My Father’s War
Lady Slipper
Woodshed
My Mother Burned My Father’s Letters From the War
Where I Was When I Heard about the Sinking of the Andrea Doria
Deadeye
Short Block
‘59 Cadillac
Rocking Chair Regatta
We Wore the Kind of Shoe
Singing Dylan
Leica
Another View
Behind the Drawn Curtain with Light
Fishing
Main Street
‘49 Chevy
My Father’s Garden
We Drove East on Highway 10 to Ritzville
The Singer
Life Scroll
Legacy
If I Could I Would Meet My Father
Part Two: Life in Vegas
Memories Stack Up
We Leave Our Mark
Funerals
To Note the Sacred Places We Began
’32 Freightliner
I Am Watching Six-Year-Olds Play Soccer
A Moment Years Ago Today
Reflections on My Wedding Day
The Scholar Takes His Turn
Table Grace
Remains
Dancing in Minnehaha Park on This Late Sultry Summer Afternoon
And You Are This to Me, a Dappled Shade
Garden’s End
Go, Lovely Weed
Dreams of Wolves
An Insolent Demand
Green Olives
You Slip into This World Headfirst
Moving Home
Life in Vegas
Evening on Ruby Beach
Part Three: How to Learn
Starbucks, Tuesday, 3:36 p.m
Reading for Pleasure at Barnes and Noble
Me as Jimmy Stewart
The Phone Solicitor
Action Still
History in a Piece of Chalk
Telecom’s Bequest
Before Gestalt
Theatre for Strangers
Plantain
Souls That Have Languished in Attics
How to Learn
Rodney Presbyterian Church c. 1850
Land of Rest
Even the Animals
Prayer for Those Who Fall from the Sky
The Sun Has Risen on My Coarse Complaint
Prayer for the Rich and the Poor
Lux Aeterna
This Laconic Moon
Vital Meaning
The Occasional Fire