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Contents

Dream, July 5, 2006 1

Kevin 2

To A Poet of the Three Gorges 3

Gulf War Veteran 4

Under the Leonids 5

Toward Pittsburgh 6

Terror in the Dust 7

Dundee Creek 9

Columbia 10

Dundalk 11

The Maximum Effective Range 12

Gut 13

During the Mexican Revolution, Slain Catholic Rebels Were Strung from Telegraph Poles 14

Psalm 40 15

Hail Mary 16

Ground Rules 17

Pulse 18

May Day 19

God of Storms 20

Thresholds 21

When Living Well Isn’t Enough, Invite Your Enemies to Dinner 25

Oysters 26

Tornado Warning 27

Vernal Nocturne 28

Beaver Dam, 1987 29

World Series 30

Cord 31

Phantom 32

Driving at Night to My Mother’s House the Day After Christmas 33

Beauty 34

As I Think of You in Italy 35

GPS 36

After Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at the Abbey Theater 37

Famine Memorial, Dublin 38

Noel Aubade 39

Please Refrain from Celebratory Gunfire 40

Clairaudient 41

Confirmation 42

In Memoriam Annum 44

Cromwell Valley 45

Coma 46

Saudade: 1983 49

The Investment Building 52

Curfew 53

Saratoga Passage, August 2014 54

The Last Hours of Summer 55

Winter Storm Warning 57

The Color of the Fluid in My Father’s Catheter Reminds Me of Snowball Flavors 58

What to Do When Someone Shoots Up a Gay Nightclub in Florida in the Name of God While You Are Living at an Artist Colony 61

Reverse Bachata 62

Afternoon at a Gas Station 63

Years 64

Dark Matter 65

Summer Grass Aches and Whispers 67

Ways of Looking at 13 Dead Bald Eagles 68

How to Unpack a Bomb Vest 72

About the Author 75

…that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

–Gary Snyder