Asleep in the Lightning Fields

by AKE JORN

• ISBN13: 9781881515449
• ISBN10: 1881515443
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Hauling the Dead Horse	p. 1
Gray Dipper Song	p. 2
Push Boat Morning Blues	p. 4
Photograph: Norfolk, VA 1969	p. 5
Learning to Tie My Own Shoes	p. 6
Might Have Been That Tractor	p. 7
Lost Love of Scissors	p. 9
Broadcast on a Brown Radio	p. 10
Cut Blue Skin	p. 11
Love Song For My Cello	p. 12
A Flattened Ball	p. 13
Chicken Fried Steak	p. 14
The Death of a Tractor's Son	p. 15
What Becomes of Distance	p. 17
This Poem Was Always About Anger	p. 19
We Are Rolled in a Dog like a World	p. 20
The Blind De Soto	p. 22
My Student Writes of My Death	p. 23
Careful Singing	p. 25
Another Night Gets It In The End	p. 26
Mandelstam in Virginia	p. 27
Sunken Deadrise in an Estuary	p. 28
Whence I Came	p. 30
Small Wooden Elegy	p. 31
Lost Snail Song	p. 35
Plastic Coffee Cup	p. 36
Secret Snapshot	p. 37
The Girl Who Sailed Like Kites	p. 38
Asleep in the Lightning Fields	p. 40
Alcohol	p. 42
My Wife Drives The Car Through The Flower Bed While Going in Reverse: Part 1	p. 43
Behind Maggie's Grocery	p. 44
I was a Teen-Age Summer Camp	p. 45
Kelvinator Moon	p. 47
Why My Garage Talks Slowly	p. 48
Fire Sermon at a Burnt-Out Gas Station	p. 49
Missing a Piece of Praise	p. 51
What Entirely Light	p. 53
Black Secret Dog	p. 54
Night in the Desert During the Drought	p. 55
The Pretty Black Flower Dream	p. 56
Egg Bound Cowboy Blues	p. 57
I Left a Garage Behind Me	p. 58
Mumbling the Family Hymnal	p. 59
New Kitchen Gospel Music	p. 60
Push Mower Heavenly Body	p. 61
Gardening Provencal	p. 62
Why Bulbs in the Desert	p. 63
Clementine, My Pruning Shears	p. 64
How My Wife Saves the Day	p. 65
My Wife Drives The Car Through The Flower Bed While Going in Reverse: Part 2	p. 66
Lullaby for a Young Road	p. 69
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