The Hub of the Miracle

by Bingham, Sallie

• ISBN13: 9780865344808
• ISBN10: 0865344809
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Sunstone Pr

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	13	(4)
1 IN MOURNING	17	(12)
The Prophet is Never Welcome in Her Own Country	19	(1)
Iron Shield	20	(2)
Funeral Meats	22	(2)
The Fire's Moment	24	(2)
Lighting the Stove	26	(1)
Maybe That's the Answer	27	(2)
2 IN WINTER	29	(8)
Early December	31	(1)
Indigo	32	(1)
Work	33	(1)
Writing Two Poems Every Day	34	(2)
Touch is the Miracle	36	(1)
3 WHAT THE STOVE SAYS	37	(12)
Lid	39	(1)
M.A. Godin's Stove	40	(2)
Pail of Pinecones	42	(1)
Such Good Timber	43	(1)
The Stove Pipe Speaks	44	(2)
Nine Degrees: A Woman Banks A Fire	46	(2)
Three Fires	48	(1)
4 AFTER THREE MARRIAGES	49	(26)
Growing Up with Legends	51	(1)
After Three Marriages	52	(2)
After Three Weddings	54	(2)
Last Child	56	(1)
Not for Me the Long Knowing	57	(1)
A Way to Dance	58	(2)
The Massage	60	(1)
Seventeen: The Pink Dress	61	(1)
First Poem	62	(2)
Learning to Skate	64	(2)
And You Were There	66	(2)
Where He's Staying	68	(2)
Telling Tales	70	(1)
Five	71	(1)
Mother Love	72	(1)
Sannyasa	73	(2)
5 DAILY NEWS	75
Chechnya	77	(1)
I Cannot Do	78	(1)
Walk	79	(1)
The Tree that Grows in the Center of the World	80	(1)
Shearing Him	81	(1)
Daily News	82	(1)
Guaco	83	(1)
Make-Work	84	(1)
Sleeping in Pearls	85	(1)
Losing the Sextant	86	(1)
Crossing the Border	87	(1)
The Child Who	88	(1)
February: Lilies of the Valley	89	(1)
Event	90	(2)
The Old Burn	92	(1)
Bill Cody's Wild West Show	93	(3)
Sunday Afternoon Concert	96	(2)
Now We Are Thirty	98	(2)
Death of Medicine Wheel	100	(2)
Sisters-In-Law	102