Kiss, Kiss

• ISBN13: 9781880834787
• ISBN10: 1880834782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center

Summary

"The poems in Kiss, Kiss aspire, with feistiness and wit, to isolate, reclaim, memorialize, and reexamine those significant but ordinary longings, daydreams, people, and locations we too-often take for granted. Using the South's lush landscapes as their settings, these poems celebrate family, talk frankly about loss, desire, and healing, mourn for those no longer with us, and find, in the mundane, that which is truly marvelous and transcendent."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Birdy opens the door	p. 3
Hallowed Ground	p. 4
Butterfly Bush	p. 6
Aunt Avis	p. 7
Wind	p. 9
Color	p. 10
Trophies	p. 11
Apologia: Thirty Years and Counting	p. 12
Her Regrets	p. 14
Her Mother's Sex Life in the Fifties	p. 16
Faking It	p. 17
Oranges	p. 18
Promises	p. 19
The Ethos of the Eccentric and Other Bullshit	p. 20
When I Get Like That, Put Me Out Under a Tree	p. 21
Resting Under Magnolias / Put Me Out Under a Tree	p. 22
Reading Voltaire in Augusta, GA	p. 27
Sunbathing	p. 31
Saratoga	p. 33
What we need now	p. 34
There is this need	p. 35
With relief	p. 37
You're not nearly as interesting	p. 38
Bad luck and bad weather	p. 39
Waffle House Blues	p. 41
Bistro 369	p. 44
If the Fat Fits, Wear It	p. 46
Porphyria	p. 48
Heart Lust	p. 49
Catfish	p. 50
Stars key of the Lightning-Brown Hair	p. 52
We cling	p. 54
Another day boating	p. 57
Even the bass in the channel	p. 59
In the part-time bliss	p. 60
Where is it measured	p. 62
Waiting it out	p. 64
A life untold	p. 66
Unintended Consequences	p. 68
The oldest dog in the world	p. 69
Under all the ugly	p. 71
In the warp	p. 73
Water	p. 75
Final Cut	p. 77
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