Bodies, The. Christopher Sindt

      The Bodies

      Christopher Sindt

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621

      © 2012 by Parlor Press

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      S A N: 2 5 4 - 8 8 7 9

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Sindt, Christopher.

      The bodies / Christopher Sindt.

      p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)

      ISBN 978-1-60235-285-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-286-5 (ebook)

      I. Title.

      PS3619.I54785B63 2012

      811’.6--dc23

      2012000366

      Cover design by David Blakesley.

      Cover: Commuters Castro Valley © 2010 by Jessica Dunne. Painting photographed by Ira Schrank. Used by permission.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      Contents

       Beginning with a Line from Exodus

       Coast Live Oak

       Hayward Marshlands

       Beginning with a Line by Rilke

       Ground Problem

       Sunset Beach

      

       Beginning with a Line by Wallace Stevens

       Death Valley

       Fishing after Breakfast

       So and So as a Force of Nature

       Shake the World

       Formation

       Continental

       Salt

       Without

       Greenpicker Trail Interlude

       Power

       Made of Cedar

       Unmistakably

       South of Limantour Interlude

       Blue Is What Burns

       Marriage

       Drake’s Bay Interlude

       The Plough

       Something Illustrated

       Beautiful Edifice

      

       Beginning with a Line by Julia Kristeva

       Mercy General

       Scan

       The Limits

       Invisible Habit

       The Dark Inside

       (Hidden Bodies: Note to the Soul of the Maple

       The Borders

       Science Fiction

       (Monument: Note to the Soul of the Body’s Lover

       The Temporary World

       Looking Up

       Little Dusks

      

       Garden

       Hymn to the God of Dailiness

       Beginning with a Line by H.D.

       Beginning with a Sentence by Jack Spicer

       Manzanar

       The Circle