Rookery

A Collection Of Poems By American Author Traci Brimhall. 1.(n) A Colony Of Rooks -- Aubade With A Broken Neck -- Aubade With A Fox And A Birthmark -- Dueling Sonnets On The Railroad Tracks -- Aubade In Which The Bats Tried To Warn Me -- Aubade In Which I Untangle Her Hair -- Onciromancy -- Aubade With A Panic Of Hearts -- Regret With Wildflowers -- Concerning Cuttlefish And Ugolino -- Appalachinan Aubade -- Restoration Of The Saints -- Noil Me Tangere -- Requiem With Coal, Butterflies, And Terrible Angels -- 2.(n) A Breeding Place -- Fiat Lux -- Elegy With Mosquitoes, Peppermints, And A Snapping Turtle -- The Summer After They Crashed And Drowned -- Discipline With Lines From First Corinthians -- To The Tall Stranger Who Kept His Hands In His Pockets, Fourteen Years Later -- The Bullet Collector -- Chastity Belt Lesson -- On A Mission Trip To Philadelphia I Begin To Fear The Inside Of My Body -- Missionary Child -- Possession -- Why He Leaves -- Echolalia, St. Armands Key -- Leviathan: A Rapture -- Through A Glass Darkly -- Prayer For Sunlight And Hunger -- 3.(n) A Crowded Tenement House -- Ars Poetica -- Nocturne With Clay Horses -- Via Dolorosa -- Falling (for The 146...) -- The Saints Go Marching -- Battle Hymn -- Falling (a Twin-engined B-25...) -- At A Party On Ellis Island, Watching Fireworks -- The Women Are Ordered To Clear The Bodies Of Suitors Slain By Ulysses -- Dressing Heads -- Margaret Garner Explains It To Her Daughter -- A Dead Woman Speaks To Her Resurrectionist -- The Light In The Basement -- Come Back To Me -- American Pastoral -- Kingdom Come -- Nocturne With Oil Rigs And Jasmine. Traci Brimhall.