Bright Dead Things. Ada Limón

How Far Away We Are

       9. The Quiet Machine

       10. I Remember the Carrots

       11. The Tree of Fire

       12. Someplace Like Montana

       13. State Bird

       14. Downhearted

       15. Miracle Fish

       16. The Saving Tree

       17. What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use

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       18. Bellow

       19. What Remains Grows Ravenous

       20. In a Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me

       21. Cower

       22. Relentless

       23. The Riveter

       24. The Vine

       25. After You Toss Around the Ashes

       26. The Noisiness of Sleep

       27. We Are Surprised

       28. The Long Ride

       29. Before

       30. Torn

       31. Field Bling

       32. In the Country of Resurrection

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       33. Glow

       34. The Wild Divine

       35. Day of Song, Day of Silence

       36. Oranges & the Ocean

       37. Play It Again

       38. Long Ago & the Cow Comes Back

       39. Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds

       40. Service

       41. The Plunge

       42. The Good Fight

       43. Drift

       44. Midnight, Talking About Our Exes

       45. Nashville After Hours

       46. Oh Please, Let It Be Lightning

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       47. Adaptation

       48. Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America

       49. Prickly Pear & Fisticuffs

       50. The Whale & the Waltz Inside of It

       51. A Trick of the Light

       52. Tattoo Theory

       53. The Problem with Travel

       54. Outside Oklahoma, We See Boston

       55. The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road

       56. Lies About Sea Creatures

       57. Call to Post

       58. Lashed to the Helm, All Stiff and Stark

       59. Home Fires

       60. After the Ice Storm

       61. The Other Wish

       62. The Conditional

       • Acknowledgments

       • About the Author

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Who among the numberless you have become desires this moment

       Which comprehends nothing more than loss & fragility & the fleeing of flesh?

       —LARRY LEVIS

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