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      Free Verse Editions

      Edited by Jon Thompson

      13 ways of happily

      books 1 & 2

      Emily Carr

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina

      © 2011 by Parlor Press

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      S A N: 2 5 4 - 8 8 7 9

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Carr, Emily, 1978-

      13 ways of happily : books 1-2 / Emily Carr.

      p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)

      ISBN 978-1-60235-202-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-203-2 (adobe ebook)

      I. Title. II. Title: Thirteen ways of happily. III. Series.

      PS3603.A77265A616 2011

      811’.6--dc22

      2010054542

      Cover design by David Blakesley.

      Cover image: “Happiness” by Emily Carr. Oil on paper. Image U990.17.1-2 courtesy of University of Victoria Art Collections.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      Contents

       book 1: the journal of elastic perception.

       draft 1, eye, white & spring.

       draft 2, & you know this is your fate to waver.

       draft 3, the flower of having passed through paradise in a dream.

       book 2, an alphabet of gluing from misshapen wings.

       draft 4, the long fall to dirt heaven.

       draft 5, half a wishbone expressing with broken breast the truth.

       draft 6, dandelion to the instant.

       acknowledgments

       about the author

       Free Verse Editions

      For B.C.

      There is no story in which you are not the background.