(AGAINST SILENCE)
In every direction...

PLOT
The sad story...

HISTORICAL EPISODE
two feet of clay...

NINE SIGNATURES
In your head, slender curlicues of blood...

LIFE
no one survives it...

10/11
creeping naked around a church...

MYSTERY
I found the murdered man's ______ in my hand...

THEFT OF A LINE FROM STRAND
Torment of love--...

STOP MY EARS
in the middle of the night...

HIDING
in the forest...

SECRECY
A long time till dawn...

UNLUCKY MOON
the tin fear...

SEARCHING
Broken sky, light rain...

BLANK OF BLANKS
no hand can hold...

FALLING
A fine grace of falling is in the leaves...

AT DAWN
Darkness breaks away from...

AT THE PLACE
Standing where something died...

STRANGE FISHING
Blameless...

BEING DEAD
it can't kill you...

JUDAS IS IN HELL
our child-life with its magical intents...

GETTING PEACE
I got inside...

LISTENING TO THE DEAD
you have it all your way...

HEAVEN
is this what it means...

MOON ROAD

Starting out along the beat-up asphalt
of Dutch Church Road, shelving stream alongside,
we argued over the turn on Walker Lane.
The difficult way, potholes, sliding gravel,
that's what we were after.
Little Wolf Drive, Red Hill, Wampler:
names charming us away from ourselves. (Those ways 
we lived desperately
with each other).

Where the hillslope edges
the silt flats of White River,
we hit on Moon Road,
the road that finally failed us, narrow clay
giving itself down to the floodplain,
tires slipping, your mouth tight, hands choking
the wheel, so much trouble
backing out.