Rough Honey Book

Introduction

i

Olives, Bread, Honey, and Salt 5

Whitewater 6

Voltage 8

Galileo 9

The Prodigies 11

Eight questions 13

After she told me she was pregnant 19

So deeply that it is not heard at all, but 20

ii

Daily, Weekly, Monthly 25

Pantoum 26

Song of the butcher's daughter 29

Apologia 31

Blanket 32

Annunciation 34

Library 35

Want Me 36

Noon shadow 37

iii

Anaphylaxis 41

Dictator 42

Rough 43

Trouble 44

Barn Door 46

Built It Ourselves, Out of Love and a Few Nails 47

The Night Orchard 49

iv

White Mushrooms 57

Wind sonnet 59

Ghazal 60

Aquarium 62

Sky-Blue, Grass-Green 64

Love & Distance 66

New Dominion 67

Allergy 68

Dead heat 69

Vultures at Cold Canyon 72

v

Rough honey 75

Ground Fire 76

Halo 78

Our Campaign for Her World 79

Robber girl 83

Blue Tiles 84

Clearing the Field 85

Holding 88

Ars poetica 89

(How to Fall from) Grace 90

Acknowledgments 97