My Psychic: Poems

by Kimbrell, James

• ISBN13: 9781932511253
• ISBN10: 1932511253
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Ravishing second collection from a 1997 Kathryn A. Morton Prize Winner.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
I.
My Psychic	3	(3)
Four Tangerines	6	(2)
But Thou Has Played the Harlot with Many Lovers; Yet Return Again to Me	8	(3)
Ode	11	(1)
Drought Music	12	(2)
Blackberry Winter	14	(2)
On Teaching	16	(3)
Sometimes a Cloud Looks Like a Getaway Car Again	19	(2)
Don't Drive to the Beach Alone	21	(4)
II. LOVE HAD A THOUSAND SHAPES
i. Love had a thousand shapes...	25	(1)
ii. When I was a child my mother would stare...	26	(1)
iii. Soon as the last bag of black beans...	27	(2)
iv. We broached it speculatively, the "afterlife"...	29	(2)
v. My mother calls to talk about what a terrible...	31	(1)
vi. I kiss her on the forehead, put my arm around her...	32	(1)
vii. My mother swatting a mosquito off my shoulder...	33	(1)
viii. When I return from the hospital...	34	(1)
ix. Far to the left of the placard that read ETERNAL...	35	(1)
x. My mother and her friends by the apartment pool...	36	(1)
xi. My sense that things were poorly rehearsed...	37	(1)
xii. Everywhere I went my mother went with me...	38	(1)
xiii. After the dream I pull the ottoman...	39	(1)
xiv. More than twice the amount that her check could pay...	40	(1)
xv. There is the shape of sound: someone passing...	41	(4)
III.
Depression in May	45	(1)
Praise for the Ford LTD	46	(3)
Wings	49	(2)
Bahia Grass	51	(2)
To Keats in October	53	(1)
The Gulf	54	(2)
Up Late, Reading Whitman	56	(7)
The Author	63