Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	Looking for Another Version	1
	Working Mother	1
	The Woman in the Moon	4
	Road Trip	5
	Sketching in Barnstable	6
	Barely Eight	7
	Your Going	8
	Passion at Forty	9
	All the Trees	10
	Incarnate	15
	The Subject of Our Lives	15
	Selective Memory	15
	Sappho's Gymnasium	18
	Bye Bye Barbara	22
	Jigsaw Puzzle	23
	Landscape	24
	This Is for Megan	25
	Short Story	27
	Old Woman Reclining	28
	The Prostitute's Notebook	29
	On Weekends	32
	He Comes to Lie Down	33
	Plenty	33
	My Mother, Listening to Flowers	33
	Learning to Speak	36
	This Familiarity	36
	Body Doubled	38
	Recomposition	40
	Portraits of the Ladies	41
	What Man Might Kill	43
	Excerpts from "Fugue"	46
	Sonnet in Primary Colors	48
	Real Life	49
	Doing Good	51
	Places	52
	Persephone's Notes	54
	Afterthought	54
	Casus Belli	54
	Lightning and Thunder	57
	Interruption	59
	One is whole. One is not	61
	Lilies	62
	Bowl with Pine Cones	63
	Questions about the Sphinx	64
	Forced Retirement	65
	Crutches	65
	Eros in His Striped Shirt	69
	My Husband's Bride	69
	Say	69
	Hound and Leper	69
	At Night	74
	Poems from a Country House	76
	You Know	80
	Catching the Scent	81
	Gangrene	82
	Miss Gee Meets W. H. Auden in Heaven	82
	Trial Separation	85
	Message	86
	The Shoes	86
	Excerpts from Sight	88
	Tuscarora	92
	Crossing Out	94
	Small Power	95
	No part of the hand was hungry	96
	Class	97
	Violins tickling	98
	October 7, 1994	100
	They were gliding	100
	Arctic Spring	102
	The Child We Won't Have Is Crowding Us in the Front	103
	Curling on the Bottom of My Mother's Bed	103
	Bookshop in Witner	105
	Dahomey	107
	Confessions of a Pisciphobe	109
	Playing Fields	111
	The Veterinary Student	112
	The Beach	113
	Worry	113
	Kitchen Terrarium	115
	Day Surgery Pre-op	120
	Building the Compost	120
	To Janet, on Galileo	122
	Blues	122
	Old	126
	Damn You, Lady	129
	Thin-legged Lover	131
	Vow	132
	The Shoes	132
	Playing the Part	132
	To Our Cosmeticians	134
	Dogged Persistence	136
	The Raptor	136
	After the Argument	138
	White Hotel	139
	In the Upstairs Window	139
	Moving Out	142
	This Is Just a Fairy Tale	144
	A Hurdler Explains Her Reasons	145
	Crossing the River	147
	June	147
	First Harvest	147
	Rockstar Poet	150
	Remembering Emily	151
	Yom Kippur 1984	152
	Eclipse of the Moon	156
	The Suicide	157
	Out in the Cold	158
	Pieta	159
	In Answer to the Question: Have You Ever Considered Suicide	161
	Looking for W.E.B.	161
	Word Problems	161
	Part Four: Rebirth	166
	Heart	169
	You Figure It Out	170
	Good News/Bad News	170
	The Postmaster's Children	170
	The Saturday before Easter	175
	Pez Dorado	176