Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered Book

	Introduction
	Flight	4
	Eye Change Dreams	5
	Preparation	9
	A Song on the End of the World	11
	In Common	12
	The Size of Spokane	14
	What He Thought	16
	Unguent	18
	High Jinx	19
	Delphos, Ohio	21
	Capitalist Poem #42	23
	The Golden Angel Pancake House	24
	The Gulf	26
	Everything Good Between Men and Women	29
	Song of the Gourd	30
	Tear It Down	32
	Almost Happy	32
	Married	33
	The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart	33
	January 1 [1998]	36
	March 16 [1996]	36
	April 26 [1998]	37
	August 31 [2000]	38
	December 29 [1997]	38
	No Sense of Direction	41
	Of Flesh & Spirit	43
	These Images	44
	A Song	47
	Blues	48
	Tornfallet	48
	Aa Bb Cc ... Xx Yy and Zzing	51
	Dib Dab	51
	At Ease	54
	April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa	65
	Ode to Elegance	66
	Bananas	70
	The Birth	75
	Anseo	75
	The Briefcase	77
	Sam	79
	June 20	79
	Homage to my hips	80
	Daughters	80
	My Friend's Divorce	83
	Going for Peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas	84
	Wedding Cake	85
	Decima Guajira	89
	Photo Shop	90
	The Silver Sands	91
	Coinages: A Fairy Tale	94
	How Easy It Is	96
	An Explanation	98
	Thoughts at the Grave Site	100
	Strange Patterns	100
	Two Ways to Cook Macaroni and Cheese for Pastor	101
	Trade Off	103
	Anemone	103
	It Was My First Nursing Job	105
	So Get Over It, Honey	107
	On the Eating of Mice	110
	Counting Sheep	110
	Antimatter	111
	The Fall	111
	[Blues]	113
	Eddie Priest's Barbershop & Notary	114
	Negative	115
	Nude	118
	The Race	120
	The New Marriage	123
	Tone of Voice	124
	Buyer's Remorse	125
	Hippie Barbie	127
	Barbie Joins a Twelve Step Program	127
	Buddhist Barbie	129
	Anodyne	131
	The Deck	132
	Venus's-flytraps	133
	Two Visits in One Day	137
	Horns on Your Head	137
	Crumbs	138
	Word Power	138
	Compulsory Travel	141
	Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers	142
	Modern Madonnas	146
	Her Account of Herself	148
	My Muse	150
	Gifts	152
	Childhood	153
	Maple Tree	155
	The Floral Apron	157
	Song of the Sad Guitar	158
	Rhapsody in Plain Yellow	160
	Hope	167
	First Lesson	167
	Evening	168
	The Blue Anchor	171
	Rent	172
	Easter Sunday 1955	174
	On the Island	175
	Permissions	179
	Acknowledgments	185