Blood Orbits. Ger Killeen

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      Blood Orbits

      Ger Killeen

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Killeen, Ger, 1960-

      Blood orbits / Ger Killeen.

      p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)

      ISBN 978-1-60235-123-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-124-0 (adobe ebook)

      I. Title.

      PR6061.I35B56 2009

      821’.914--dc22

      2009032567

      Cover art: Excavation I. Acrylic on Paper. © 2007 by Saba H. Qizilbash. Use by permission.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      Contents

       Calendar

       The Abyss of the Birds

       To the Counterglow

       The Translator’s Dream

       Finisterre

       Blood Orbits

       First Flesh

       Tenebrae

       Twinberry

       Winged Book

       Figures and Grounds

       1. Vendémiare

       2. Brumaire

       3. Frimaire

       4. Nivôse

       5. Pluviôse

       6. Ventôse

       7. Germinal

       8. Floréal

       9. Prairial

       10. Messidor

       11. Thermidor

       12. Fructidor

       Approaching the Barricade

       Introduction to the Topography of Oregon

       In the Margin of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

       Land Grant

       Hegelian Meditations

       One Negative Way Of Looking At A Blackbird

       Erebus and Terror

       1. An Excellent Observation of the Sun in Quicksilver

       2. Comparing the Merits of the Two Routes

       3. In England There Is Nothing New

       4. Hereabout the Larch Trees End

       5. One Small Repeating Reflecting Circle

       6. Reasons for My Engaging Hope as a Steersman

       7. The Coruscation Reassumed the Horseshoe Form

       8. Numerous Stone Marks and Several Caches

       9. Beyond the Floating Light

       10. The Translation of Her Indian Name Is Burnt Weed

       11. The Shingly Point of which I Have Spoken

       Light Keeper

       September 1914

       Gallipoli