I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio Book

	Preface	xiii
	Beautiful Ohio	xvii
	Along the Waters
	River by River	3
	Lake Hope in Early Spring	5
	Crossing Mac-O-Chee Creek	6
	The Gorge	7
	Wingfoot Lake	9
	Fast Opera	11
	Twentieth-Century Cave Painting, Circa 1975	12
	Selling Books at the James Wright Festival in Martins Ferry, Ohio	13
	The Swan at Edgewater Park	15
	September, Edgewater Park	16
	In Ohio: The Names of Rivers	18
	Dorothy with Richard	19
	Beaver Creek	20
	The barges at night on the ohio river	21
	Puberty	23
	The Stretch of River between Belpre and Marietta	24
	Final Nature Poem on the Little Cuyahoga	26
	Anniversary Poem	27
	Home in Ohio	29
	Down Country Roads
	Lost in Ohio	33
	Homesick	34
	The Family Farm	35
	Driving through Ohio	36
	Not Poor	37
	Two Muses Discuss Arrowheads	38
	In Ohio	39
	The Sumac in Ohio	40
	Ohio Farm House, ca. 1846	41
	Losing Grace	43
	Dixie	45
	Sunday Morning Apples	50
	Good Friday at the Rookery	51
	The Amish Farmer's Daughter	53
	The Curse of Purslane	55
	The Black Walnut Tree	56
	Stark County Holidays	58
	Taraxacum Officinale	60
	Summer of 1912	62
	The Compost Bin	63
	Benefits of Geauga County	64
	Suckering Tobacco	65
	American Beauty	67
	Moose Ridge Apple Wine	68
	Regional Bird	74
	Rebecca Devanney, 1954-1981	75
	Roof, Ohio Territory	77
	Finding Wild Bees on My Sister's Farm near Baltimore, Ohio	78
	Tree Ferns	79
	Mennonite Funeral in Southwest Ohio	80
	Homage to the Corn	82
	Losing Ohio	84
	Through Small Towns
	Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	87
	Spring Begins in Hinckley, Ohio	88
	The Lights of Chillicothe	90
	Leaving Downtown Marietta, Ohio, 1983	91
	War Brides' Dinner	92
	Death	93
	Near Liberty, Ohio	94
	Nelson Ledges, 1948	95
	Leading Them Back	96
	That Summer, Joe, and Prison	97
	Tractors	99
	Fall in Reily, Ohio	101
	Brick	102
	The Future of Lorain, Ohio	104
	At Marietta, Ohio	105
	310 Murdock Street	106
	Drowning in Ohio	107
	Black Cat in Byhalia	108
	Beulah	111
	Walking the Streets of Portsmouth, Ohio, 1977	112
	Baking Pies	114
	Approaching Chester, Ohio	115
	Basic Writing, Marion Correctional	116
	Midwest: Ode	118
	Route 4	120
	Elegy in the Form of an Invitation	122
	In the Cities
	Porphyro in Akron	127
	Church of Rose of Lima, Cincinnati	130
	Immigrant Children at Union School	131
	One for the Ladies at the Troy Laundry Who Cooled Themselves for Zimmer	132
	The Eisenhower Years	133
	May I Ask You a Question, Mr. Youngstown Sheet & Tube?	135
	Secrest Arboretum, My Tenth Year in Wooster	136
	Mary Oliver Would	138
	In a Steelworker's Bed	140
	Cicadas	141
	Rust Belt	143
	Advent	144
	Between Pittsburgh and Cleveland	145
	My Father's Secret	146
	Nine of Clubs, Cleveland, Ohio	148
	A Dock Poem	151
	December Wake, Youngstown	152
	Cleveland, Angels, Ogres, Trolls	153
	East Akron	154
	Strolling over the Rhine in Cincinnati	156
	Lament for My Brother	157
	Love Songs for Cleveland	158
	One for the Rose	161
	Beyond Even This
	Beyond Even This	165
	The Buckeye	166
	Ohio Highway	168
	German Village	170
	Ohio	172
	Godspeed	174
	Now, Children, Let Us All Rise and Sing the State Song	176
	The Buckeye Sestina	179
	Ohio Haiku	181
	John Chapman	183
	Tecumseh	185
	Ohio	187
	Three Miles from Luckey	188
	The Breathers	190
	How We Argue	192
	Buckeye	195
	Contributors	197
	Credits	213
	Index of Poets and Titles	219