Litany of Thanks
Joan Aleshire

Four Way Books
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• I.

Knocks on Marble 5
(Day at Zero) 6
Funeral Fan 7
What Stunned 8
(Day At Zero) 10
WIld Sky 11
A Stranger and a Poor Man 13
The Wanderer 15
Flood of Our Time 17
(Day at Zero) 19
Days of Our Recklessness, 1960 20
Always 22

II.

Up To 25
Wide-Eyed Look 26
(Day at Zero) 28
Trainyard 29
Tete a Tete 31
(Day at Zero) 33
Do You Miss Me? 34
Light in the Desert 36
(Day at Zero) 38
Your Feet 39
What You Wish For 40
The God of Fire 42
(Day at Zero) 43
Great Portraits 44

III.

First steps in teh afterlife 49
(Day at Zero) 51
Dia de los Muertos 52
The Lost 53
Scapegoat, Winter Solstice 55
Stories We Tell Ourselves 57
(Day at Zero) 64
The Dead 65
Once More for Orpheus & Euridyce 66

IV.

Yellow Transparents: Reprise 71
Memorial Days 73
(Day at Zero) 74
After All 75
Litany of Thanks 77
Owner, End of the Night 78
Visit 80
(Day at Zero) 82
Late Summer, Late 83
Wonderful World 84
Watching Moonlight 86
(Day at Zero) 88




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