In the Wake of Home

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In the Wake of Home is a volume of acute for a father's drinking, a sister's death by drowning, a brother's suicide, a lover found and lost, and above all for the vulnerable child self that remains alive in the grown woman who seeks "a way to praise."Table of ContentsLANDSCAPE WITH CHILDLandscape with ChildAnimalThe DisciplesInheritanceThe Toad-Faced childIn Memory of My FatherMother/Daughter PoemOld Hawley RoadThe Poem of the HandsBURNING THE FIELDSBurning the FieldsAfter She DrownedEden BeachHantDoublesVillanelleMercutioHigh JinksBee Edge To St. AbbsA HOUSE MADE LARGER BY FIREA House Made Larger By FireThe Woman &the BirdsLunaHosannaAnd Sunday Morning100 Fellows RoadLove PoemThird Wind2 Wren StreetLove Song for KateriAnd Sunday MorningThis Strange Thing We Call SpringPoem of My CockLove Growing DownPrayerHOMAGE TO ODYSSEAS ELYTISHomage to Odysseas ElytisBabushkaIN THE TIGER CAGEIn the Tiger CageThe Little MermaidObsessionA Familiar StoryThe Country of TwoPoem for Li ChiWinter AlphabetBonesSEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001September 11th