Slow Mountain Train

 
 

Contents

 
Interlocutor 11
 
I
 
Talking to You 15
A Thing You’re Saying 16
I Saw You 17
Farmor: Last of Eight Grandparents 18
The Silence Raced Ahead of Me into the Dream 19
  L’Atalante 20
Who Bring Forth 22
The Milky Way. “Big and Beautiful” 24
 
II
 
Preparing to Read 29
Typos 30
What You Asked For 31
Poem from a Line by Jarrell That I Thought Was
     by Williams 34
Le Nœud 35
Argentina 36
Swallows (Uppsala) 38
Night Train to Trondheim 39
The Rock 40
 
III
 
Joel in His Son’s Room 45
Women Going in Doorways 46
Voices 47
The Sun and the Moon 48
To Feel at Home in a Foreign Country 51
Interview with the Spirit of Grandma 53
Dreaming as One 57
Poem to Mr. E. J. 60
Nocturne No. 2 62
The Falls 64
What the Dinosaur Said 66
 
Notes 69