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      Copyright © 2017 Mark Jarman

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Jarman, Mark, 1952- author.

      Title: The heronry: poems / Mark Jarman.

      Description: First edition. | Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016014118 (print) | LCCN 2016020095 (ebook) | ISBN 9781941411353 (softcover: acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781941411360

      Subjects: | BISAC: NATURE / Ecology. | RELIGION / Spirituality. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Meditation.

      Classification: LCC PS3560.A537 A6 2017 (print) | LCC PS3560.A537 (ebook) | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016014118

      Interior and exterior design by Kristen Radtke.

      Manufactured in Canada.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Sarabande Books is a nonprofit literary organization.

      This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Sarabande Books with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

       Contents

        Title Page

        Copyright

        Dedication

       The Heronry

      1  Ruby Throated Moses

      2  Cul-de-Sac Idyll

      3  Bat

      4  Catch and Release

      5  Eocene Beech Leaf

      6  Then Saw the Problem

      7  The Kestrel

      8  Expected

      9  Spell for Encanto Creek

      10  Outward Bound

      11  The Heronry

       Believers, Unbelievers

      1  Reverend “Rev” Rebenek

      2  Betsy Moore

      3  Aunt Rolla

      4  Passed On

      5  Mr. Jackson

      6  Meg Stanley

      7  Brightlingen

      8  That Teenager Who Prowled Old Books

      9  The Northern Lights

      10  In a Bookstore in Hay-on-Wye

      11  Bad Girl Singing

      12  George W. Bush

      13  Wenlock Carston

      14  Mickey Lucas

      15  The Istanbul Album

       Another Field

      1  Dünya Ahiretin Tarlasıdır

      2  Friends and Wolves

      3  Rest on the Flight into Egypt

      4  Walking on Water

      5  Bulgarian Icon of The Last Supper

      6  The Teachable Moment

      7  Milagro

      8  Two Islands Corsica Santorini

      9  Boy with a Buttercup

      10  Prosím

      11  Mothering Sunday

      12  Tiel Burn

      13  Polska Street

        Acknowledgments

       Will the circle be unbroken?

      Bo Dee Jarman (1930–2012)

      When my eye caught the green surprise

      of a hummingbird inside the dim garage,

      like a brooch pinned against the sheetrock wall,

      I canted open the creaking garage door

      and tossed him back to blinding summer life.

      He spiraled into brilliance, out of sight.

      When Michelangelo struck Moses’ knee

      and shouted at him, “Speak!,” the chisel made

      a dent. But Moses kept his glaring silence.

      And yet, through the statue’s marble hair, a wildness

      stuck out two ridged horns and spoke.

      “Let this be light,” it said. “Let this be light.”

      The flycatcher feeds its young a lightning bug, frantically blinking.

      The trees forget the hurricane as they stand still for days.

      The defibrillator sleeps in a lump under our neighbor’s shirt pocket.

      The flycatcher snagging its prey squirms like a trout in midair.

      The dogwoods this spring blew all their savings on taffeta.

      The cardiac muscle fibers shudder like untimed pistons.

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