Pleasure

by Young, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781597140232
• ISBN10: 1597140236
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Heyday Books

Summary

New prose poems by Gary Young, author of No Other Life.

Table of Contents

It's a joy to be subtracted	13	(1)
The Vedas tell us	14	(1)
A tall man in a white apron	15	(1)
I stood on a narrow bridge	16	(1)
Three women walked toward me	17	(1)
I couldn't find the mushrooms	18	(1)
Stephen marinated salmon	19	(1)
Since dawn	20	(1)
I took my son into the forest	21	(1)
When I was a young man	22	(1)
My brother's been reading	23	(1)
A warm current	24	(1)
The boys have no idea	25	(1)
An owl called out	26	(1)
The signature mark of autumn	27	(1)
My son was possessed	28	(1)
A full moon rises	29	(1)
We buried Sarah's father	30	(1)
My son says, I wish I could	31	(1)
Stephen sends me clippings	32	(1)
In a small pool	33	(1)
We'd been talking about the limits	34	(1)
For three days	35	(1)
I carried my mother's ashes	36	(1)
I woke in panic	37	(1)
Weeks past the solstice	38	(1)
There was a total eclipse	39	(1)
My son stepped between two mirrors	40	(1)
She handed me a piece of salmon	41	(1)
My son has drawn two circles	42	(1)
We bought halibut	43	(1)
There wasn't flesh enough to resist	44	(1)
I rose before dawn	45	(1)
Two ravens call	46	(1)
My son fell asleep	47	(1)
Every Wednesday	48	(1)
Hunting mushrooms	49	(1)
The swallows hide their children	50	(1)
It's early winter	51	(1)
I was searching my notebook	52	(3)
Near Santa Maria	55
I left home	54	(1)
I know that bird	55	(1)
The beans soaking in the steel pot	56	(1)
Who would volunteer to live	57	(1)
There was something in the air	58	(1)
When I step in from the deck	59	(1)
The world cannot be contained	60	(1)
On the nights I can't sleep	61	(1)
The poet is barely visible	62	(1)
The scent of wild azalea	63	(1)
While I was away	64	(1)
My brother will tell you	65	(1)
Jack is telling a joke at the bar	66	(1)
When I was a boy	67	(1)
Michael and I take an airplane	68	(1)
The fragrance welling up	69	(1)
A woman kneeling	70	(1)
She cut the salmon	71	(1)
Exhausted by the day	72	(1)
I bought eggplants	73	(1)
Every winter	74	(1)
He says, you write poems	75	(1)
It's a luxury to worry	76	(1)
The shallow stream murmurs	77	(1)
I took the children	78	(1)
When my wife arrived	79	(1)
A sparrow preens	80	(1)
The roads were closed	81	(1)
Brad's patient	82	(1)
My son and I were standing	83	(1)
I walked into the hills	84	(1)
Elizabeth fed me	85	(1)
Acrobats vanished	86	(1)
At this hour	87	(1)
The world is at home	88	(1)
I'd like to reduce everything	89