Taavila, Pia

Moon on the Meadow - Collected Poems : Collected Poems

Acknowledgments xi Publications xiii Introduction xvii Asylum 1 Some Poems Come 2 Julia Sails From Ireland 3 Mailman 5 Black and White 6 Snapshots 1-12 7 Steps 9 Brushing My Mother's Hair 10 Cunningham's Drug Store 12 Hats 13 Deaf Club Christmas Bazaar 14 A Deaf Man Uses the Telephone 16 Home Run 17 The Deaf Club Sails to Bob-Lo Island 18 School Store 20 Spelling Test 21 To Hear Again 22 Mother 23 Roof 24 Losing Faith 25 Visit 27 Resurrection 28 School for the Deaf 29 Deaf Like Me 31 Mother's Day 32 Miller Avenue 33 November, 1963 34 Uncle Jimmy 35 Missa Liturgis 37 Samaria: Woman at the Well 38 Invitation 40 Eagle's Nest 41 Undone 43 Six-Year Forecast 44 Hospital 45 Mercenary 46 Truncated 47 Hilton Head 48 Showdown 49 Ex Libris 50 Telegraph 51 New Linen 53 Upon Learning of Your Death 54 Brigantine Island 56 Hollow 57 Christmas Dance 58 Teaching Load 59 A Colleague's Death 60 For the Living 61 Widow Woman 62 He Asks Me to Write of Him 63 Moon on the Meadow 64 Train Window 65 At Water's Edge 66 Kentucky Tomato 67 Drive 68 Penobscot Bay Lament 69 Museum of Fine Arts: Boston 70 Michigan 71 San Francisco 72 Cabbie 73 Flight to India 75 Kashmiri Houseboat 76 Two Peonies 77 Thaw in Karnataka 78 India: Step 79 Banyan Haiku 80 Taj Mahal 81 The Last Note 82 Walloon Lake 85 Swimming in the Nude 86 Edge 87 Consider: 88 Andre Agassi, 36, Holds On to Win 89 Watching the Weatherman 90 Haze 91 Kodak Moments 92 The Zen of Cleaning Glasses 93 Matthew 94 Gabriel 96 Snowboard 101: My Four Sons 97 Bone 98 Guest Room 99 Daughters 100 One Young Wife's Tale 101 The Children and I Shall Meet Again 102 Rx: Mother and Children 103 Sewanee Haiku 104 The Workshop Poet 105 Reprieve 106 Assignment 107 In Fog 108 Lake Cheston 110 Lake Cheston in the Rain 111 Southern Landscape 112 For Sale 113 A Woman's Want 114 Cape Cod 115 Proposal 116 Falling Leaves 117 Roxbury Mill 118 Waterrock Knob 119 Slant Cinquain 120 Blender 121 The Love Zone ABCs: A Romance 122 Slope 123 The Moon 124 Vine 125 Spring Rain 126 Earth Science 127 Lazy Sunday Morning 128 Hindman Poetry Reading 129 Trellis 130 Penance 131 David 132 The Bells of Santa Croce 133 Orthodoxy 134 Wheat Fields 135 Bag of Rings 136 Sail 137 E. Atlantic 138 Delray 139 Rite of Purification 140