What Water Knows: Poems

ISBN-13: 9780810143845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 104 str.

Jacqueline Jones Lamon

Spis treści

• I: This Fragile, Resilient Life
• No One Eats Icicles Anymore
• Her Silk Scarf Was Blood-Soaked by I-495
• Travelogue
• What Happens When a Brother Flees
• Up the River
• “Governor Snyder Drinks Flint Water”
• Pipeline
• Lemonade
• Mob
• Six
• Niagara
• Ownership
• What Is Human, or Culture, or Left Hanging in the Air
• All That We Need to Be Happy
• On Watch for the Spontaneous
• The Garonne River Shifts Her Direction
• Classification Is the Beginning of Our Greatest Understanding
• Nine to the Limit
• Prodigal
• The Browning
• II: The Open, Empty Mouth
• We Could Walk into the Waters, or Leave Life as It Seems
• Thermostat
• This Wholeness, Beyond Everything We Know
• With a View of the Water from Stable, Cleared Ground
• Disregarding the Alarm
• The Night Before Euthanasia
• What We Wear to Meet the Water
• Cleansing My Mother’s Cold Body
• The Merchant Seaman’s Wife
• Rockaway
• And All the Rest Will Have Washed Away
• Quiet on the Set
• Still Life
• Polar Vortex
• My Body Speaks of Hatred
• Water, Water Everywhere, But How Am I to Drink?
• Martini
• III: The Promise of Relief
• The Latitude, The Longitude, and a Third Axis Called Time
• Socratic
• We Put So Much Faith in the Power of Doors
• Cruise to Nowhere
• Bathwater
• Breaking & Entering
• Ornithology
• Aftermath
• Holding
• Boarding the Six Train at Brooklyn Bridge
• No Matter What the Incline, The River Around Us Still Flows
• Primate
• The Death and the Dying, A Million Times Over
• It Is Happy Hour, Somewhere
• There Are Some Things We Can’t Create in Life
• There are Sixty-Five Steps Between There and Here
• The Only Time We Think of It Is When It’s No Longer There
• Bay One
• Currency
• What To Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel
• And Tomorrow, We Learn to Name the Air
• Skully
• In the Beginning
• Commitment
• That Which We Reach for When Given the Chance
• Acknowledgements