Dangerous Goods - Sean Hill

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      DANGEROUS GOODS

      ALSO BY SEAN HILL

       Blood Ties & Brown Liquor

      © 2013, Text by Sean Hill

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415.

      (800) 520-6455

       www.milkweed.org

      Published 2013 by Milkweed Editions

      Cover design by Charles Rue Woods

      Cover artwork composed from images: canoe by MShep2, starlings by Rene Mansi, and map by Roberto A. Sanchez. All images from Istockphoto.com.

      Author photo by Bart Nagel

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Hill, Sean, 1976-

      [Poems. Selections]

      Dangerous Goods : poems / Sean Hill. — First edition.

      pages cm

      ISBN 978-1-57131-895-4 (e-book)

      I. Title.

      PS3608.I43775A6 2013

      811'.6—dc23

      2013024301

      Milkweed Editions is committed to ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book production practices with this principle, and to reduce the impact of our operations in the environment. We are a member of the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the world’s endangered forests and conserve natural resources. Dangerous Goods was printed on acid-free 100% postconsumer-waste paper by Friesens Corporation.

      FOR LAUREN

      CONTENTS

       Postcard to Wrong Address

       Bahamas Voyage: Meditations on Blacks on Boats

       Voices in St. Paul’s Cathedral

       Postcard to Anna

       Postcard to My Third Crush Today

       Postcard to Regret

       Dangerous Goods

       Postcard to Listlessness

       Above It All

       From the Best Authorities

       AFRICA from the best AUTHORITIES

       Schieffelin Bros. Exports & Imports

       What Can Come to Pass

       A Freedman Speaks of His Fellow, 1872

       Jail Yard

       Spring 1986

       Seven Pastorals at Sixteen

       November 16, 1872

       Family

       In My Father’s House

       Visiting the Carriage House

       In Houston

       On Simple Machines

       Lack

       Etymology in a Subway in Houston

       Gannoway Returns, 1874

       Postcard to Nostalgia

       Bemidji Blues

       Bemidji in Spring

       Penumbra

       Postcard to the Bottoms of My Shoes

       June 1920

       Aurora Borealis

       Postcard with Blood Stain

       We Live to Learn to Love: A Story

       Postcard from Reconciliation

       Dearest,

       Postcard with Blood Stain Received

       Somniloquent

       Bemidji Blues

       Against the Snow

       Sam Kee, I imagine

       Rara avis, 1913

       Spring in Bemidji

       Sugaring, 1915

       Sugaring Redux

       Still Life with Starlings and Man

       A Photograph Taken in Duluth

       after James Wright

       The Wall

      DANGEROUS GOODS

       DISTANCE GROWS IN THE BONES

      At a certain point I lost track of you.

      —AGHA SHAHID ALI “FAREWELL”

      Yesterday I was, one

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