Contents
I
13
Oceanus Procellarum
14 Going Native
15 These Flowers Know Me
16 Roots
17 Flight
18 Beauty and Darkness
19 206 Bones and the Landscape It Moves In
II
23 Lappin and Lapinova
24 Weathered Remains
25 Ancient Machines
26 Shipwreck
27
The Airships Take Us, Even As We Blow Out the Last Candle
29 The Ghost that Walks Among Us in Winter
III
33 Wolf Memory
34 Eggs, Flour, and Assorted Fruit
35 The Soldier
36 Pantoum for a Recent Kill
37 The Monster Home
38 Clean
39 Magnetic North
40
Wolf Kill at Doe Lake
IV
43 Warmth
44
In the Church of
Miniature Horses
45 An Embrace of Green Thorns
46 Dead Air
47 Dirt
48 New Country
50 Above Us
51 Ancient Rumblings
V
55 How Clouds Form
56 It Flowed, Like a Grey River, Around Corners
57 Watching
58 Reinforced Concrete
59
The Six-Legged Dog
Retrieves a Stick
60 Fallen Cities
62 End of the Line
63 Attic Window
65
Notes on Poems
67
Previously Published
69
Acknowledgements
71
About the Author
Review of Monster by George Elliott Clarke
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