At the Great Door of Morning. Robert Hedin
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Contents
4 Bells
11 Basic Math
13 An Hour Ago
15 Out Pruning
17 Not the Way They Used to Make Love
20 Fliers
21 Myron
22 Rain
24 Afterward
26 The Wreck of the Great Northern
27 Houdini
28 Sloughing
31 Pollen
32 Rowboats
35 Hunting Agates at White Rock
36 TRANSLATIONS
38 Selected Translations of Rolf Jacobsen
39 When They Sleep
41 Night Music
43 Are They Waiting for a Star?
44 Dies illae