Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days (Paperback, Reprint)

I. THE FORESTS OF GRIEF & COLOR
On a Day, In the World
Whose Woods These Are We Think
All-night Crooked Moonrise over Mountain Pines
The Bride Tree Can't Be Read
Brief Walk at Salt Point Park
For the Lovers Abandoned in Sunlight
During a Suite by Gaspar Cassado
Beneath a Dying Coast Live Oak
[& heard a humming, like the]
The Forests of Grief & Color
The Before Sleep Kind of Everything
Composition: Fringe Lichen: Tilde & Mae
Composition: Under Cypresses, Near Big Sur
Of Monarchs Again, Especially the Stripes
So, Bacteria Also Have Their Thunder
Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind
[Untitled Day]
Species Prepare to Exist after Money
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
Mountain Pond Landscape, in a Drought
As a Sentence Leaves Its Breath
Some Kinds of Forever Visit You
The Bride Tree Lives Three Times
In the Forest of Blue Aptitude
II. NEAR THE RIM OF THE IDEAL
A Short Rhyme for Amiri Baraka
A Summer Song from Old Berlin
Untitled & Translation to Portuguese
Curl of Hair in a Drawer
The Family Sells the Family Gun
Describing Tattoos to a Cop
Chicago Black Friday Protest Near Apple
Crypto-Animist Introvert Activism
To a Life Ended in Winter
Hearing La Boheme after the March
Near the Rim of the Ideal
III. METAPHOR & SIMILE
IV. TWO ELEGIES
The Rosewood Clauses
(An elegy for my father)
Her Presence Will Live beyond Progress
(An elegy for C.D. Wright)
V. TWO PARKS
A Poem for a National Forest
A Poem for a National Seashore
Acknowledgments & Notes