The Highwayman's Wife

by Edwards, Lynnell

• ISBN13: 9781597090759
• ISBN10: 1597090751
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Red Hen Pr

Table of Contents

Sonnet for the highwayman	p. 13
Cold as	p. 17
Last call : Campari and soda	p. 19
Suite for wives
Me, the wife : versions of Medusa	p. 20
Love, Helen	p. 22
Juno, her rival	p. 24
Unraveling	p. 26
Trophy	p. 28
Last call : Manhattan	p. 30
Vocations of the sleepless	p. 31
Walking with the hounds	p. 32
What the dead think	p. 34
The offices of flowers	p. 35
Anniversary	p. 36
Last call : PGA punch	p. 37
California redemption value	p. 38
Leave no trace	p. 40
Aubade, November	p. 41
Bargain, spent	p. 42
Last call : old fashioned	p. 44
Loco Ceviche	p. 45
Twister takes up teen; lives to tell	p. 46
Deadheading	p. 48
And Matthew Brady photographing it all	p. 49
Campaign promise	p. 50
Last call : mint julep	p. 51
Garnish	p. 52
Go	p. 55
How it's done	p. 56
Weapons, the road	p. 57
The problem of debt	p. 58
Wench (lament for the innkeep's daughter)	p. 59
The problem of roommates	p. 60
Younger brother abroad	p. 61
The vicar's dilemma	p. 62
The highwayman's wife	p. 63
The moon, spurned	p. 64
Garrison guns	p. 65
The last long days of seventh grade	p. 69
Spelling test	p. 71
Gardener's almanac	p. 72
In my new expanded life	p. 73
No regrets	p. 74
Aubade, Kentucky son	p. 75
Alabama interlude
The baby plays monopoly	p. 76
Lakebottom	p. 78
Damp	p. 79
Further affections	p. 80
Vacation rental	p. 81
All i know about love	p. 82
Sidelined, coach	p. 84
Driving your car	p. 86
Planting dahlias with a pick-ax	p. 88
For you, October's boy	p. 89
I gave my love a cell phone; or, technology won't help you now	p. 90
Children, sex	p. 91
Children will drive you	p. 92
No bigger than a minute	p. 94
Advice to the poet	p. 95
The November shakes	p. 96
On presuming Mr. James Caan would not, under any circumstances, pretzel	p. 98
Snow day	p. 99
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