I am becoming the woman I've wanted Book

	Foreword
	Finding Her Here	1
	History of the Body	2
	Applewood	5
	Room to Love	7
	Fourteen	10
	Foot Loose	12
	Ceremony	15
	Butchering Time	16
	Womansong	20
	A Place to Rest	21
	Everything That Falls Has Wings	23
	The Fat Lady Speaks	33
	Rhonda, from the Runway at Diamond Don's	34
	Shadow Brush	39
	Matchmaking	40
	Response to a Reading	46
	What I Know from Noses	48
	The Makeup Poem	53
	Ode to Grey Hair	55
	Shell Life	61
	La Maja Desnuda	62
	Living the Green Life	63
	The Spearthrower	64
	The Marathon	66
	Back into This Body	79
	Return to Campus	81
	Crossing the High Country	82
	To My Body	89
	Premenstrual Syndrome	90
	Spa	93
	The Women's Side	95
	Figure Problems	97
	Belly	99
	Contemplating a Breast Enhancement Operation	101
	Stretch Marks	102
	Seeing the Earth from the Moon	104
	Breastfeeding at Night	109
	Forever	110
	Tapping a Stone	112
	Before Stillbirth	113
	After Hysterectomy	114
	The Woman Whose Body Is Not Her Own	115
	Gathering Morning Fire	117
	Her Hair	118
	Joan Has Her Ears Pierced	130
	Hearing	131
	To My Eyes	132
	Menopause Poem	134
	This	135
	After Reading Mark Strand's "Courtship"	137
	Better Than Sex	138
	To Women Who Sleep Alone	139
	The Pier	142
	To Be Able	155
	For S	156
	Examining the Heat Exchange over a Mug of Tea	157
	The Naked Truth	159
	Plastic Surgery	160
	The Nest	161
	This Insane Notion, She Says	166
	Take My Body	168
	Crone Drives through Spring	170
	Combustion	171
	Osteoporosis	173
	Lucy	175
	Rehabilitation	177
	After Sixty	185
	Clay	187
	Spring Surge	191
	In Praise	192
	Volunteer Mourner	195
	The Present	196
	The Lovers at Eighty	205
	Blackberry Wine	207
	The Year Alice Moved to the Attic	209
	A Living Will	216
	If Death Were a Woman	217