Contents
A Liturgy For Stones


Altar Piece 13

1

Like Trees Planted by Streams of Water · 17

Children’s Sermon · 18

Swallow Song · 20

Church Janitor · 21

At the Mennonite Talent Show · 22

Electric Glossolalia · 23

For John · 25

My Friend at Firestone Asks About Poems · 26

Looking at Roadside Bluestem Before Leaving Decatur · 27

Spring Burn · 28

2

Gammal Fäbodpsalm · 33

In the Language of Dreams · 35

Still Life: Orbs of Delight · 36

Elegy · 37

Tending Gardens · 38

Blind Willie’s Wife · 39

After Bach’s Air in G · 40

Old Women in Eliot Poems · 41

3

A Map of the Kingdom · 45

After the Signing of This Sunday’s Scripture · 46

Maundy Thursday · 47

Chicken Scratches on the Back of Sunday’s Bulletin · 48

The Prodigal Mother Suspects · 49

Simeon’s Ascent · 50

Lydia’s Song · 51

Veni, Sancte, Spiritus · 52

4

A Liturgy for Stones · 55

5

Suburban Art · 65

When I Stay Home from Church · 67

The Former Tenant Leaves No Forwarding Address · 68

Sunday Afternoon in the Universe · 69

A Line · 70

Swimming Lesson · 71

A Selfish Sonnet of Thanksgiving · 72

The Poet Keeps an Easter Vigil · 73

Silence, 11 September 2001 · 74

Afterword

Poems Should not Be 77

Notes 79

The Author 81


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04/15/03