Research Catalog

Title

Flock & shadow : new and selected poems / Michael Hettich.

Author

Hettich, Michael.

Publication

Moorhead, MN : New Rivers Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

196 pages; 23 cm

Contents

Some days just feel like -- Visiting hour -- Romance -- Specialist -- Work -- Interior -- Wash -- Attributes of love -- Sweat -- Sleep -- Spell -- The father -- Forgiveness -- Sky full of white birds -- The simple man -- Thread -- Bees -- Miracle cure -- Your mother sings -- You have lived -- Romance -- Summer rain -- First love -- Calmly while the roof swells -- Almost out of sight -- I remember when -- Down at the docks -- Colorado -- I live alone -- True story -- Mercy, mercy -- Near Inverness, Florida -- My one true story -- Cocoon -- Hands -- Needing silence -- He said -- Door -- Lion -- I met a man in here once -- Anniversary -- Some nights -- This poem -- Crow -- First love -- Blue feathers -- From day to day -- Old story -- A dance called leaping -- A form of emotion -- "Abide with me" -- Three was a mother -- One language to forget with -- Modern dance -- A simple tree -- Certain trees -- Moon flowers -- Yearning to be beautiful -- Midsummers : the sound -- Loons -- Light -- Mushrooms -- Song for the other half of my body -- Breathing underwater -- Waking to rain -- Boy with two tongues -- Moving bodies -- Sounds instead of dreaming -- During the Cold War -- One morning -- Tennis -- Everything, and nothing at all -- Independence Day -- Ordinary bruises -- Prolonging the daylight -- The longest train in the world -- At my brother's house -- Song -- Christmas in the woods -- Fruit trees and flowers -- Holding tight -- Memorable food -- The small bird -- Watching my children sleep -- Insomnia -- Love poem in early may -- The stories we can never tell -- The point of touching -- Night animals -- The same -- After months of careful deliberation -- Unplayed music -- Distances -- Behind our memories, our larger families wait -- In Miami -- Hunger -- Guitar -- Happiness -- Flock and shadow -- Trees filled with hair -- The simple truth -- Only child -- Anything I really mean -- Aunt Betty -- Bath -- Several ways to vanish -- Jubilee -- Another life -- Planting the house -- Color blind -- Several kinds of privacy -- Solstice -- White birds -- Yet another use for poetry -- Laughter -- Nurture -- In our youth -- The parents -- My daughter's birds -- Still life toward evening -- Watching other animals -- Caesura.

ISBN

0898232279 :

LCCN

2005923891

OCLC

• 62750967
• ocm62750967
• SCSB-5218839

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries