In a Few Minutes Before Later (Hardcover)

CONTENTS ? (dedication) ? I. IN LANDSCAPES OF STRESS & BEAUTY ? Micro-minutes on Your ? Way to work ? A Slightly Less Stressful Walk Uphill ? Dawn Tercets with Blake & Nuthatch ? Right Before Dusk, Some Meadow Fragments ? A Goodness That Comes from Nothing ? The Highest Part of the Dust ? Poem Before the Power Went Out ? Poem While the Power Was Out ? & after the Power Came Back ? [interruption: stichomythia] ? People's Emotions in One City Block ? After a Pageant, Before a Birth ? Poem Describing Time to the Unborn ? II. ACTIVISM & POETRY?SOME BRIEF REPORTS ? The Times We Find Ourselves In ? Activism & Poetry?a Brief Report : :: :: : ? In the Gardens of Jose Marti ? Notes outside West County Detention Center ? [interruption: stichomythia] ? Among Some Anapests at Civic Center ? Wiping tear Gas off Young People ? Report on Another Encounter in Nature ? 6 Views of Moss Dendroalsia Abietinum ? [interruption: stichomythia] ? The American Burying Beetle ? On the Molecules of Certain Ancestors ? The Mostly Everything That Everyone Is ? 1967 ? III. THERE ARE MANY WOMEN TO CHERISH ? Winter Daybreak Stanzas for Our Daughters ? The Closing of a Midtown Bookstore ? A Pattern of Minutes During Illness ? For Students, After Reading the Odyssey ? The Working Sister of the Muses ? Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial ? [interruption stichomythia] ? In Some Senses of the Word ? Taking the Sunflower to the Mountains ? After the Fires,,, In the Mountains,,, ? S/kin ? History of Punctuation on the Face ? [collage essay] ? IV. FOR WRITERS WHO ARE HAVING TROUBLE ? A Feeling Right Before the Feeling ? On Days When We Both Travel ? [interruption stichomythia] ? Concerning the Meaning Molecule in Poetry ? The Child, Finishing Fourth Grade Online, ? The Scattering of the Lyric I ? The Photograph of the Black Hole ? Her Map Might Change Its Arrows ? [interruption stichomythia] ? Dear emerging, pre-emerging & post-emerging poets, ? For One Who Paused Her Writing ? To the Poets of Myanmar ? ::[an artist's sound, between the Farallones]:: ? [interruption stichomythia] ? Winter Song for One Who Suffers ? V. THE SICKNESS & THE WORLD SOUL ? ::: [a ragged white moth passes by]::: ? [at a hospital: in the east] ? [little breath circles all across town] ? [: : : at equinox, same 12 squares, window : : :] ? [stayed busy inside moments of not] ? :::[the invisible is full for you]::: ? [in the split gardens irrational hope] ? [poem on a birthday::: in shelter] ? [trance poem with the gray stone] ? [asyndeton of adenine cytosine guanine uracil] ? :::[when spring dusk????????fills the garden]::: ? :::[lines on Easter during the sickness]::: ? [for the workers suddenly less employed] ? ::[untitled]:: ? :::[to the voice of the age]::: ? ::[in a place with no light]:: ? [ ________________ ] ? :::[smooth black stone has seen everything]::: ? [chiasmus with all the other animals] ? :::[the voice of the age chorus]::: ? [pinched nerve in my white arm] ? [the hive interrogates the helpless hum] ? [the fourth part of a triptych ] ? [untitled tableau] ? VI IN A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LATER ? Escape & Energy ? The ground of being is changed ? Escape & Logic ? Punctuation at the end of time ? Escape & Song ? Love & Myth ? The Themes in American Literature ? During an enchantment in the life ? Escape & Speculation ? Doubt & Love ? Escape & Exeunt ? Epithalamium for Anxiety & Energy