Table of Contents for Bloodroot : Indiana Poems

Foreword

James Alexander Thom

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

From Somewhere in Southern Indiana (1993)

The Forefather Arrives

(1)

Entering the Southern Indiana Wilderness

(1)

Butchering

(1)

Cutting Wood

(2)

The Woods of Southern Indiana

(2)

Indigo Bunting

(2)

Chamomile

(1)

Purple Trillium

(2)

Tulip Poplar

(2)

Walnut

(2)

Skinning a Rabbit

(2)

Darkness Comes to the Woods

(1)

Southern Indiana

(1)

St. Meinrad Archabbey

(1)

To Obscure Men

(1)

Two Bricks and a Board

(5)

My Father Young Again

(4)

A Terre Haute Story

(2)

Hoosier Songs

(2)

Sisters

(1)

A Civil War Veteran from Indiana

(3)

Flight

(1)

For an Old Friend

(2)

Basketball Season Begins

(1)

Somewhere in Southern Indiana

(5)

From Bittersweet along the Expressway (2000)

Arriving on Paumanok

(1)

Sycamore on Main Street

(1)

Ancestral Voices

(1)

Weeping Willow

(1)

Dogwood

(1)

Gatsby Country

(1)

The Roslyn Forge

(1)

Song of the Music Stand

(2)

A Midwestern Story

(3)

A Dream of Plum Blossoms

(6)

From The Country I Come From (2002)

A Whiff of Fresh Sheets

(2)

Full Circle

(1)

The Language of Place

(2)

The Language of Species

(1)

What We Lost in Southern Indiana

(2)

The Buffalo Trace

(2)

What the Miami Call Themselves

(2)

Song of the Mississinewa

(1)

Mississinewa River Lament

(2)

Mississinewa Cottonwood Leaf

(2)

Lines Heard in Northern Indiana Cornfields

(2)

May Apple

(2)

Fire and Ice

(2)

One Voice from Many

(5)

Pastoral Poetics

(2)

The Corn Cave

(2)

Hauling Hay

101

(2)

Hayloft

103

(1)

Milk Music

104

(1)

The Labor Day Boxes

105

(1)

The Horseradish Man

106

(2)

When the House Was New

108

(1)

Woods Hymn

109

(1)

Bloodroot

110

(2)

His is Only Hickory Sapling

112

(2)

The Martin Box

114

(2)

The Potato Barrows

116

(2)

Gathering Hickory Nuts

118

(2)

The Quilters

120

(2)

Saturday Night at the Calumet

122

(1)

Because I Could Not Stop

123

(1)

Song for Bob Dylan

124

(1)

Odysseus in Indiana

125

(2)

Return to a Mighty Fortress

127

(3)

Song for a Sister

130

(2)

The Dropped Pigskin

132

(2)

Dream of a Hanging Curve

134

(2)

Dorothy and the Jewish Coat

136

(1)

The Mandolin and the Tenor

137

(2)

Let Morning Light

139

(2)

Hugging the Spirit

141

(2)

Farewell Lullaby

143

(1)

At Least Now

144

(2)

The Reunion

146

(1)

Places

147

(4)

From Looking for God's Country (2005)

Letter from a Star above Southern Indiana

151

(2)

The Nest

153

(1)

Strawberry-Patch Song

154

(1)

The Gardener

155

(2)

Chicken in the Woods

157

(1)

Godfather's Fishing Knife

158

(2)

Patoka River Canoe Trip

160

(1)

Barnyard Hoops

161

(1)

The Schneebrunzer

162

(1)

What the Map Says

163

(2)

God's Country

165

(2)

The Storyteller

167

(2)

Where Trees Are Tall

169

(1)

The Piankashaw in the Sycamore

170

(2)

Coming into the Valley

172

(2)

Dark and Deep

174

(1)

Moon Shadows

175

(1)

The Time Has Come

176

(5)

From Invisible Presence (2006)

Gate

181

(1)

The Language of Red

182

(1)

Corn Blowing in the Wind

183

(1)

The Blue Road

184

(1)

The Space Between

185

(1)

Bovine Beauty

186

(1)

Corn Syllables

187

(1)

Cut Earth

188

(1)

Morel

189

(1)

Cabin

190

(1)

Whitman's Web

191

(1)

Deaton's Woods

192

(2)

Woods Meditation

194

(1)

David Ignatow's Trees

195

(1)

Bare Tree Song

196

(1)

Tale of the Red Barn

197

(1)

Two Kittens

198

(1)

Midwestern Scene

199

(1)

A Red Barn for the Joads

200

(1)

What's in Wood?

201

(1)

I Remember When

202

(1)

Close Look

203

(1)

Flower Interior

204

(1)

Rilke's Shadows

205

(1)

Army of Orange

206

(1)

Left in a House

207

(1)

What If Fish?

208

(1)

For Whom the Bells

209

(1)

Picket Fence

210

(1)

Rest

211

(1)

Walking the Streets

212

(1)

Windows

213

(1)

The Court House Bench

214

(1)

Man in Red Cap

215

(1)

Neighborhood Muse

216

(1)

Hoosier Poetry Reading

217

(1)

Song of the Red Covered Bridge

218

(5)

Local News: Poems 2005-2007

Sister Soap

223

(1)

Clothesline Saga

224

(1)

Charlie

225

(1)

Little Red Worms from Tennessee

226

(1)

Dolls and Guns

227

(1)

The Local News

228

(1)

Two Bottles of Beer

229

(1)

Cemetery wind

230

(1)

The Egg in My Hand

231

(1)

Lindauer's Woods

232

(1)

Father, Teach Me

233

(2)

Old Henry

235

(2)

Wilson's Drugstore

237

(1)

Sister Query

238

(2)

Rockroading

240

(2)

The Rustic Tavern

242

(1)

Fishing Again after Many Years

243

(1)

Patoka River Carp

244

(1)

The Blueberry Bush

245

(1)

Call of the Quail

246

(1)

The Rosary

247

(2)

A Silent Prayer

249

(2)

Eighth Anniversary

251

(1)

Brother, Brother

252

(2)

Indiana Sycamore

254

(1)

Patoka Lake Morning

255

(1)

Woods Chapel

256

(1)

Palm Light

257

(1)

A Bend in the Road

258

(2)

In Transit

260

(2)

Prayer to Peyton Manning

262

(1)

Fiddler

263

(1)

I'm Practically with the Band

264

(2)

What Have You Gone and Done?

266

(3)

On the Road with the Hampton Sisters

269

(1)

Etheridge Knight's Blues

270

(1)

Etheridge Knight at the Chatterbox

271

(2)

Song Out of the Dark for Jake Hale

273

(3)

For Kurt Vonnegut, Pilgrim Unstruck in Time

276

(2)

Spring Waters

278

(1)

List of Photography Credits

279