The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems Book

	Learning to Write	1
	Cahaba	5
	My Cousin Anne	7
	My Mother Loves Women	8
	Elbows	9
	Romance	10
	The Sound of One Fork	12
	from The Segregated Heart	14
	Sharing the Eye	21
	Sharp Glass	25
	Waulking Song: Two	26
	We Say We Love Each Other	34
	Your Hand Opens Me	37
	The Fact of the Garden	38
	Reading Maps: Three	40
	Poem for My Sons	51
	Justice, Come Down	53
	Declared Not Fit	54
	No Place	56
	Down the Little Cahaba	58
	All the Women Caught in Flaring Light	59
	The Place Lost and Gone, the Place Found	63
	A Waving Hand	65
	from Shame	66
	The First Question	70
	Motionless on the Dark Side of the Light	72
	My Life You Are Talking About	73
	I Am Ready to Tell All I Know	78
	In the Waiting Room at the Draft Board	80
	from At Fifteen, the Oldest Son Comes to Visit	82
	Talking to Charlie	84
	The Laughing Place	85
	Another Question	87
	Crime Against Nature	89
	Walking Back Up Depot Street	99
	Red String	101
	Eating Clay	104
	The Remnant Shop	106
	Learning to Talk	113
	Cutting Hair	114
	Doing Physical Therapy	115
	Shoveling Sand	116
	Day Off	117
	Breakfast	118
	Reading the Classifieds	119
	Picking Up a Job Application	120
	Getting Money at the ATM	121
	Playing the Lottery	122
	Giving a Manicure	123
	Picketing the Bargain Store, They Said	124
	Chopping Peppers	125
	Author's Note and Acknowledgments	127