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Above ground: poems
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Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
All at Once 3 --
Waiting on a Heartbeat 4 --
FaceTime 6 --
Passage 8 --
"It's All in Your Head" 9 --
Trying to Light a Candle in the Wind 11 --
When People Say "We Have Made It Through Worse Before" 12 --
By Chance 13 --
In the Grocery Store You Are Wrapped Tightly onto My Chest 14 --
Ode to the Electric Baby Swing 16 --
Ode to the Infant Hiccup 18 --
Ode to the First Smile 19 --
Nociception 21 --
Your National Anthem 22 --
For Willie Francis, the First Known Person to Survive an Execution by Electric Chair, 1946 24 --
Roots 25 --
Across Generations 26 --
Drone 27 --
Pangaea 28 --
New York Times Reports That 200 Civilians Have Just Been Killed by U.S. Military Air Strikes 30 --
Great Escape 32 --
Nomenclature 34 --
This Is an Incomprehensive List of All the Reasons I Know I Married the Right Person 36 --
Lines in the Sand 37 --
And the World Keeps Spinning 38 --
Tree Rings 40 --
Here Nor There 41 --
At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed 42 --
It Is Halloween Night and You Are Dressed as a Hot Dog 43 --
When We Took You to the Beach for the First Time 44 --
Ode to the Bear Hug 46 --
For Your First Birthday 48 --
When We Told You Another Baby Was Coming 50 --
Legacy 51 --
Counting Descent II 52 --
Where Are They Now? 54 --
I Am Looking at a Photo 56 --
First Time I Saw My Grandfather Cry 57 --
Coming Home 58 --
Cartography 60 --
After the Storm They Attempted to Identify the Bodies 61 --
For the Doctors Records 62 --
Deceit 64 --
Expedience 65 --
For the Doctor's Records-Follow-Up 66 --
We See Another School Shooting on the News 67 --
Gun 68 --
This Year Was the First Year I Could Not Remember Your Voice 69 --
Ode to the Double Stroller 70 --
Gold Stars 72 --
Zoom School with a Toddler 74 --
In the Ocean There Is a Small Jellyfish 75 --
Ossicones 76 --
You Ask Me What Sounds a Giraffe Makes 78 --
Yesterday Afternoon I Took You to the Park 79 --
Most Remarkable Thing About Dinosaurs 80 --
Ars Poetica 82 --
Above Ground 84 --
Tradition 86 --
What I've Learned 88 --
Dance Party 89 --
Andromeda Galaxy Is the Closest Galaxy to Our Milky Way 92 --
Alarm 93 --
Prehistoric Questions 94 --
Punctuation 96 --
Univers(al) 98 --
Ode to Bedtime 99 --
Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep 101 --
When Standing in a Cabin at the Whitney Plantation 102 --
Look at That Pond 103.
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Contributors
Smith, Clint Narrator, Author
ISBN
9780316543033
9781549133282
9780316702584
9781549133282
9780316702584
