Rodeo in Reverse. Lindsey Alexander

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      RODEO IN REVERSE

      Copyright © 2018 Lindsey Alexander

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      Cover image: Billy Renkl

      Cover / book design: Kate McMullen

      Author photo: Emily Brewer, Tntypes

      TEXT:Arno Pro 10.5/14

      DISPLAY: Uniform Condensed Medium

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Alexander, Lindsey, 1988—author.

      Title: Rodeo in reverse : poems / Lindsey Alexander.

      Description: Spartanburg SC : Hub City Press, [2018]

      Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018005343 (print)

      LCCN 2017061505 (ebook) | ISBN 9781938235412

      (ebook) | ISBN 9781938235405 (pbk.)

      Classification: LCC PS3601.L35396 (print)

      LCC PS3601.L35396 A6 2018 (ebook)

      DDC 811/.6—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005343

      This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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      CONTENTS

Saudade [All You Pioneers]

Reflection on First Season of a Marriage

Sleepless in Indiana, I Contemplate the Age-Old Arts

Spring Storm

What If Through a Window, Those Ones?

Elegy at Twenty-Three

Self-Portrait with Golden Ammo

       Good Me Attempts to Neutralize, Rescue, or Otherwise Stifle Bad Me

       Honest Abe Gets Mad Jealous of the Pretty, Successful Girl from My High School

       Urgent Matter

       Scrap of Mail Found Near Tracks of Overland Route

       This Bone Shall Dry Up and Hope Shall Be Lost

       Saudade [Unspill the Salt]

       Guilty and Reckless, I Try to Meet the Tornado Head On

       Love from Paris

       Through Greenhouse Glass

       The Waiting Room

       In Winter I Watch

      Watching Sonny and Cher Reunite on Late Night With David Letterman While Consoling Chaz Bono, 1987

       The Dream and a Shame

       On the King Bridge in Frankfort, Kentucky

       Spaghetti Western in Which Bad Me Challenges Good Me to a Duel

       Where I Think I Might Belong

       Sundays from 11 to Noon Exist Forever into Eternity

       After Nature, Every Last Thing

       Still Life with Bread

       I Said I Saw an Ostrich Bury Its Head in the Sand at the Zoo, But

       Color Theory and Other Wheels

       The Confusion of Light

       Dispatch

       One-Point Perspective

       The Negation is the Point

       Constitutional

       The Radio is Full

       In This Case

       Good Me’s Saudade of Bad Me

       Art Heist as Though a Heart

       Landscape Myopia

       But What about the Moon

       Sunset Absent Husband

       But