Cornucopia

by Peacock, Molly

• ISBN13: 9780393051230
• ISBN10: 0393051234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

"Molly Peacock's precision in "Cornucopia" makes each moment ignite with bounteous pleasures."-Yusef Komunyakaa

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 15
A Favor of Love	p. 19
A Love Koan	p. 21
The Land of the Shi	p. 22
Lexington Avenue Musedog	p. 23
Ash Wednesday, Hurrying Eastward	p. 25
Nude at a Dressing Table	p. 27
Repair	p. 28
The Parsley Ship	p. 30
The Umbrella	p. 31
Refusal	p. 33
Tan Oval Head Leaning Toward Tiny Brown Oval Shell	p. 34
Let Me Manage Something Simple	p. 36
The Land of Tears	p. 38
Couple Sharing a Peach	p. 39
Diary of Our Day in Painting Titles	p. 40
Conversation	p. 43
The Soul House	p. 44
Breakfast with Cats	p. 45
A Kind of Parlance	p. 49
Anno Domini	p. 53
Nightwake	p. 54
Walking is Almost Falling	p. 56
The Lawns of June	p. 57
The Distance Up Close	p. 61
The Lull	p. 62
Just About Asleep Together	p. 63
Old Roadside Resorts	p. 64
Those Paperweights with Snow Inside	p. 65
Where is Home?	p. 66
Our Room	p. 67
Loneliness	p. 68
She Lays	p. 69
The Shoulders of Women	p. 70
The Land of Veils	p. 71
North of the Eyes	p. 72
Two Cups on the Table	p. 73
Squirrel Disappears	p. 74
Things to Do	p. 75
Smell	p. 76
Petting and Being a Pet	p. 77
Waking to the Chatter of the Child Next Door	p. 78
A Bed for a Woman	p. 79
And You Were a Baby Girl	p. 80
Islands in Our Eyes	p. 81
So, When I Swim to the Shore	p. 82
Cut Flower	p. 83
Afraid	p. 84
A Face Regresses	p. 85
Sky Inside	p. 86
Sweet Time	p. 87
The Veil of If	p. 88
Mental France	p. 89
Next Afternoon	p. 90
Cutting Tall Grass	p. 91
A Garden	p. 92
A Gesture	p. 93
The Burnt Lawn	p. 94
Nervous Jabbering	p. 95
Among Tall Buildings	p. 96
Aubade	p. 97
Berries Which are Berries	p. 98
The Little Girls	p. 99
The Web of Histories	p. 100
My Vast Presumption	p. 101
Stumble	p. 102
Novembers	p. 103
This Time	p. 104
Desire	p. 105
World We Sleep In	p. 106
Forsythia Below Clouds	p. 107
The Breach of Or	p. 108
How I Come to You	p. 111
The Valley of the Monsters	p. 112
Buffalo	p. 114
Commands of Love	p. 115
Say You Love Me	p. 116
Blank Paper	p. 118
Dream Come True	p. 119
Unexpected Freedom	p. 120
Putting a Burden Down	p. 121
That Leaf	p. 122
Blue and Huge	p. 123
The Spell	p. 125
A Hot Day in Agrigento	p. 126
The Surge	p. 128
Parrots of the World	p. 129
Food for Talk	p. 132
Joy	p. 133
My God, Why are You Crying?	p. 135
Merely by Wilderness	p. 136
Chriseaster	p. 137
On the Street	p. 139
The Ghost	p. 140
Things can be Named to Death	p. 142
A Simple Purchase	p. 143
How I Had to Act	p. 146
Anger Sweetened	p. 148
Feeling Sorry for Yourself	p. 149
Throwing Out Old Clothes	p. 150
Friendship with Men	p. 151
Reunion	p. 152
Instead of Her Own	p. 153
Friends	p. 154
The Worm	p. 155
I Must Have Learned this Somewhere	p. 157
Art Buzzards	p. 158
Good Girl	p. 160
Don't Think Governments End the World	p. 161
Choice	p. 163
When I Love You	p. 164
One Place	p. 165
Altruism	p. 166
Dear Heart	p. 167
The Smell of a God	p. 168
Typing to Evangelize a Cut Flower	p. 169
Dear Arm	p. 170
There Must Be	p. 171
The Wheel	p. 177
So What If I am in Love	p. 178
My College Sex Group	p. 180
Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?	p. 181
Panties and the Buddha	p. 182
The Return	p. 183
Love Wall	p. 184
Waking Up	p. 185
The Scare	p. 186
Marathon Song	p. 187
The Purr	p. 188
Lullaby	p. 189
Blush Blessing	p. 190
Little Miracle	p. 191
The Spider Heart	p. 195
Seeing a Basket of Lobelia the Color of a Bathrobe	p. 197
The Rule	p. 199
The Job	p. 200
Yes	p. 201
No	p. 202
Dogged Persistence	p. 203
The Fare	p. 204
Miss, Miss, are You Awake?	p. 206
Unseen	p. 209
Floral Conversation	p. 210
I Consider the Possibility	p. 211
Vogue Vista	p. 212
Portrayal	p. 213
Love Beat	p. 214
The Hunt	p. 215
The Explanation	p. 216
Baubles after Bombs	p. 217
Religious Instruction	p. 221
In a Long Line of Horses	p. 223
Subway Vespers	p. 224
Simple	p. 226
Forgiveness	p. 227
Cancelled Elegy	p. 228
Happy Birthday	p. 229
Upbringing	p. 230
Good-Bye Hello in the East Village	p. 232
Matins	p. 234
Prairie Prayer	p. 235
Life Study	p. 236
Why I am not a Buddhist	p. 237
Index of Titles	p. 239
Index of First Lines	p. 245
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