Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • A Man Who Has Survived on Bark • poem by Ken Poyner
• 2 • Legacy: McClellan's Rumors of a Better Life • poem by Ken Poyner
• 3 • Noise in the Bathroom • poem by Ken Poyner
• 4 • Drought • poem by Ken Poyner
• 5 • McClellan's List of Things to Do at the End of the World • poem by Ken Poyner
• 7 • Teaching the Younger Brother to Drown • poem by Ken Poyner
• 9 • Lasting Order • poem by Ken Poyner
• 10 • The Capitalist • poem by Ken Poyner
• 12 • Ground Zero • poem by Ken Poyner
• 13 • Mechanics • poem by Ken Poyner
• 15 • Reinforcement • poem by Ken Poyner
• 17 • Event Horizon • poem by Ken Poyner
• 18 • Political System • poem by Ken Poyner
• 20 • Noah (ii) • (1988) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 22 • Private Property • poem by Ken Poyner
• 23 • Christmas • poem by Ken Poyner
• 24 • Christmas by the Lake • poem by Ken Poyner
• 25 • Currituck, N.C. • poem by Ken Poyner
• 27 • State Religion • poem by Ken Poyner
• 29 • Indian Massacre • poem by Ken Poyner
• 31 • The Amnesiac's Wife • poem by Ken Poyner
• 32 • The Brute • poem by Ken Poyner
• 33 • Living the Circus • poem by Ken Poyner
• 34 • Responsibility • (2021) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 35 • The Farmers Daughter, the Traveling Salesman • poem by Ken Poyner
• 36 • The Last Graceful History • poem by Ken Poyner
• 38 • War Fever and the First Strike • poem by Ken Poyner
• 40 • Backwaters • poem by Ken Poyner
• 41 • Coming of Age • (2021) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 43 • Childless Woman • poem by Ken Poyner
• 44 • Social Block • poem by Ken Poyner
• 45 • The Last Believer at Armageddon • poem by Ken Poyner
• 47 • The Hatemonger • poem by Ken Poyner
• 49 • Balance • poem by Ken Poyner
• 50 • Evidence • poem by Ken Poyner
• 52 • Morality • poem by Ken Poyner
• 53 • The Mistress of Dragons, and the Man Who Could Not Sleep • poem by Ken Poyner
• 55 • The Nature of Change • poem by Ken Poyner
• 56 • The Poem Almost About Baseball • poem by Ken Poyner
• 57 • The Retirement of the Tattooed Man • poem by Ken Poyner
• 58 • The Primitive • poem by Ken Poyner
• 59 • War Effort • poem by Ken Poyner
• 61 • The Milking Cow • poem by Ken Poyner
• 62 • The State • poem by Ken Poyner
• 64 • This Hope • poem by Ken Poyner
• 66 • Wednesday Evening and the Old Lady • poem by Ken Poyner
• 68 • Wilderness • poem by Ken Poyner
• 69 • Becoming a Citizen • poem by Ken Poyner
• 71 • Deciding on Children • poem by Ken Poyner
• 72 • The Art of Importance • poem by Ken Poyner
• 74 • The Beloved • poem by Ken Poyner
• 75 • The Coming of the Automobile • poem by Ken Poyner
• 77 • The Streetlight • poem by Ken Poyner
• 79 • The Useless Crime • poem by Ken Poyner
• 80 • The Wheel • poem by Ken Poyner
• 81 • The Shooting Ranch • poem by Ken Poyner
• 82 • Fantasies of the Farmer • poem by Ken Poyner
• 83 • Divorce • poem by Ken Poyner (variant of The Divorce 2016)
• 84 • The Elevator • poem by Ken Poyner
• 86 • The Salesman at the Time Portal • poem by Ken Poyner
• 88 • The Passing of the Spirit • poem by Ken Poyner
• 90 • Weather Patterns • poem by Ken Poyner
• 92 • Joy • poem by Ken Poyner
• 94 • The Marriage • poem by Ken Poyner
• 95 • The Chauvinist • poem by Ken Poyner
• 97 • Revival • (2016) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 98 • Night Hunt • poem by Ken Poyner
• 99 • Fidelity • poem by Ken Poyner
• 100 • Salvation • poem by Ken Poyner
• 101 • Miscarriage • poem by Ken Poyner
• 102 • The Veteran • poem by Ken Poyner
• 103 • Naturalist • poem by Ken Poyner
• 104 • The Child in the Well • poem by Ken Poyner
• 106 • Place • (2021) • poem by Ken Poyner
• 108 • Freedom • poem by Ken Poyner
• 109 • Wiving • poem by Ken Poyner
• 111 • Midlife Child • poem by Ken Poyner
• 112 • Rainmakers • poem by Ken Poyner
• 114 • The Adulterer • poem by Ken Poyner
• 116 • Grace at Middle Age • poem by Ken Poyner
• 118 • Iron Looms • poem by Ken Poyner
• 120 • Common Depression • poem by Ken Poyner
• 121 • Overtaken • poem by Ken Poyner
• 122 • The Body • poem by Ken Poyner