Foreword | |
Finding Her Here | p. 1 |
History of the Body | p. 2 |
Applewood | p. 5 |
Room to Love | p. 7 |
Fourteen | p. 10 |
Foot Loose | p. 12 |
Ceremony | p. 15 |
Butchering Time | p. 16 |
Womansong | p. 20 |
A Place to Rest | p. 21 |
Everything That Falls Has Wings | p. 23 |
The Fat Lady Speaks | p. 33 |
Rhonda, from the Runway at Diamond Don's | p. 34 |
Shadow Brush | p. 39 |
Matchmaking | p. 40 |
Response to a Reading | p. 46 |
What I Know from Noses | p. 48 |
The Makeup Poem | p. 53 |
Ode to Grey Hair | p. 55 |
Shell Life | p. 61 |
La Maja Desnuda | p. 62 |
Living the Green Life | p. 63 |
The Spearthrower | p. 64 |
The Marathon | p. 66 |
Back into This Body | p. 79 |
Return to Campus | p. 81 |
Crossing the High Country | p. 82 |
To My Body | p. 89 |
Premenstrual Syndrome | p. 90 |
Spa | p. 93 |
The Women's Side | p. 95 |
Figure Problems | p. 97 |
Belly | p. 99 |
Contemplating a Breast Enhancement Operation | p. 101 |
Stretch Marks | p. 102 |
Seeing the Earth from the Moon | p. 104 |
Breastfeeding at Night | p. 109 |
Forever | p. 110 |
Tapping a Stone | p. 112 |
Before Stillbirth | p. 113 |
After Hysterectomy | p. 114 |
The Woman Whose Body Is Not Her Own | p. 115 |
Gathering Morning Fire | p. 117 |
Her Hair | p. 118 |
Joan Has Her Ears Pierced | p. 130 |
Hearing | p. 131 |
To My Eyes | p. 132 |
Menopause Poem | p. 134 |
This | p. 135 |
After Reading Mark Strand's "Courtship" | p. 137 |
Better Than Sex | p. 138 |
To Women Who Sleep Alone | p. 139 |
The Pier | p. 142 |
To Be Able | p. 155 |
For S | p. 156 |
Examining the Heat Exchange over a Mug of Tea | p. 157 |
The Naked Truth | p. 159 |
Plastic Surgery | p. 160 |
The Nest | p. 161 |
This Insane Notion, She Says | p. 166 |
Take My Body | p. 168 |
Crone Drives through Spring | p. 170 |
Combustion | p. 171 |
Osteoporosis | p. 173 |
Lucy | p. 175 |
Rehabilitation | p. 177 |
After Sixty | p. 185 |
Clay | p. 187 |
Spring Surge | p. 191 |
In Praise | p. 192 |
Volunteer Mourner | p. 195 |
The Present | p. 196 |
The Lovers at Eighty | p. 205 |
Blackberry Wine | p. 207 |
The Year Alice Moved to the Attic | p. 209 |
A Living Will | p. 216 |
If Death Were a Woman | p. 217 |
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