Needlegrass

by Sampson, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780887484186
• ISBN10: 0887484182
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Author Biography

Dennis Sampson is Visiting Poet at Wake University.

Table of Contents

For the dawn	p. 9
Silent witness	p. 13
Midnight of the word	p. 17
To my friend in need	p. 21
Childhood Bible	p. 23
The sickle moon	p. 24
Loving women	p. 26
The meaning that eludes the life you're living	p. 27
In August just after sunrise	p. 28
Eden	p. 33
Autumn and age, river and time	p. 36
If you were here	p. 37
Elegy for the rest of the world	p. 38
Heedless world	p. 39
A tree in childhood, long since taken down	p. 40
The blessing of silence bestowed	p. 43
April snow	p. 44
What the human voice is for	p. 45
Obit	p. 46
What the rising of the dead shall mean	p. 47
Honor the cold wind and the clear day	p. 59
Wild iris, grass widow, brome	p. 60
The ease of immeasurable things	p. 61
Wildfire	p. 62
To the living wind	p. 63
History	p. 64
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