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In the search to clarify the past-and thus transform the present, these poems turn over the shards of memory like the colored glass in a kaleidoscope, looking for an angle that will light up the great mystery of how we become and continue becoming who we are.
List of contents
- Contents
- I
- Getaway Girl
- Getaway Girl
- The Yearning City
- Suicide Boys
- The Garden
- Mad Insects
- A Different Life
- Boy in Distant Oak
- Night Ironing
- II
- The God of the Dead
- Good News
- Where Hell Is
- Family Room
- My Red Dress
- Wallpaper
- Map of Charleston, West Virginia
- An Ordinary Door
- Holiday Gifts
- Proof
- Tent of Freaks
- My Mother, the Missionary
- Fourth of July
- III
- Small Bending Hope
- Dream Ride
- Scrub Jay's Voice
- Tidal Wave
- Mother's Necklace
- Girls at Slumber Party
- How I Learned Romance
- Cow Skulls
- Furious Arrow
- Forgotten Morning
- Small Bending Hope
- IV
- Water Letting Go of Sunlight
- Absence of Water
- The Fairy Tale
- Find the River
- The Bag Lady
- Another Night in Jealous, U.S.A.
- The Comfort of Your Hands After Rain
- Woman Reading at River
- Ovarian Cyst
- Everglades
- Wind Through Blackbird Wings
- Invisible Birds
- Water Letting Go of Sunlight
About the author
Terry Ann Thaxton is an award winning writer. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Main Street Rag, Futurecycle, Connotation Press, The Missouri Review, Fourth River, Cold Mountain Review, Teaching Artist Journal, and other literary journals.
Summary
In the search to clarify the past–and thus transform the present, these poems turn over the shards of memory like the colored glass in a kaleidoscope, looking for an angle that will light up the great mystery of how we become and continue becoming who we are.
