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Whorled thumbprint of a god - Chris Dombrowski "Another rapture rescheduled,"

The company of an invisible warbler - Chris Dombrowski "Bird in My Boot"

Refugee of the seraphim - Chris Dombrowski "Bird in My Boot"

Upon whose constant intercession I depend - Chris Dombrowski "Bird in My Boot"

To witness the ten thousand worlds - Chris Dombrowski "Blown Snow"

Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"

A threadbare sail nightwinds needle through - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"

Each onlooker's single deepest sorrow unremarked - Chris Dombrowski "Brook Trout"

Reflections of honeysuckle gone to seed - Chris Dombrowski "Bull Elk in October River"

A winter's worth of melting snow - Chris Dombrowski "Coda"

Prayed twice daily to Saint Anne - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

The wavering flame of my heartbeat - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Must again retrieve from nothingness - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Whose needles numbered our myriad notions - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

The tatters of a dream-scarf that unraveled - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Peppered with a million spent moths - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

A riverbank cut deep enough to bury us - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

An impact with enough dominion to annihilate - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Another stolen swig of whiskey - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Brief as a July snow - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

In the warrens of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

The ash's berry clusters not quite blushing - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Dupes an attacking rhino - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Casting her vote for desire - Chris Dombrowski "The Congressman's Daughter"

Far beyond the limits of pursuit - Chris Dombrowski "Cooking Christmas Dinner with My Son, the Runner"

Early in the noon-stabbed dusk - Chris Dombrowski "Direction"

Ink of our excuses - Chris Dombrowski "Direction"

Heeding each momentary beacon - Chris Dombrowski "Direction"

The bottle in which you hold our tears - Chris Dombrowski "Early June, Missoula, Year of the Sheep"

Before sweeping the shards skyward - Chris Dombrowski "Early June, Missoula, Year of the Sheep"

Stir a little sawdust - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"

Strung with quicksilver sunlight - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"

Bound for webs orbiting each other - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"

Pressed sage into a bed - Chris Dombrowski "Epithalamium"

A fractured school of minnows - Chris Dombrowski "Epithalamium"

A plank one might walk to horizon's edge - Chris Dombrowski "Epithalamium"

Sunday afternoon starlight - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"

Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"

Nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"

February having seeped into bloodstreams - Chris Dombrowski "Fig"

Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Splinter of dawn through the glass - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

The gears of the universe turning - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

A sugary alarm clock in the veins - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Watched a doe chewing sage - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Opening the view to thousands of landing geese - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Surviving worshippers of the sky - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

A long muted chain of twisting keys - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Small epiphanies falling through the fingers - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Fills with the strange rain of stars - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

From the willow-stitched islands - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Scores of insufficient names - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Holy Mother of Arsenic and Lead - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Blackberries straight from the unsprayed vines - Chris Dombrowski "The Forbidden"

The remnants of anger on my tongue - Chris Dombrowski "Francis"

A swirl of beckoned sparrows - Chris Dombrowski "Francis"

Shoulders slumped with star burden - Chris Dombrowski "Gentle Reader"

Horizon like a querulous line of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Geology Lesson"

The dregs of our nightmares - Chris Dombrowski "Get Up, John"

Reaching into the lineaments of the sun - Chris Dombrowski "Get Up, John"

What the elders meant by grace - Chris Dombrowski "Ghazal in which End Word Repetition Is Implied"

The precise temperature of a tear - Chris Dombrowski "Ghazal in which End Word Repetition Is Implied"

A small braid of mayflies - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

A sprig of mint broken - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

Sunlight bristling off their coats - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

The works and sufferings of light - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

Ferry him if you have the oars - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

Prodigal the leaves the earth accepts - Chris Dombrowski "Grove"

Breezes eons in the making - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"

Preempted by three bitter decades - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"

Dear birds of the tangled ceiling above - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"

His ragged anthem a wind - Chris Dombrowski "Hear them all"

A wind that stirs the torn tickets - Chris Dombrowski "Hear them all"

Raft of uprooted willow - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

In the cottonwoods' grasp of sky - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

Bright tapestry of boulders before the melt - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

The trees exhale their one green breath - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

Playing baseball with the dead - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"

Picking chokecherries in the marsh - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"

Pointed the ghost of a partridge - Chris Dombrowski "The Hunt"

The pheasant's beak full of nightshade - Chris Dombrowski "Hunting All Day beneath the Long Night Moon"

And asked to be moved - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

Seeping acridly from settling ponds - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

Through a footbridge's fenced floor - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

The wide arcs of crows - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

Existed only on ornate canvases - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

Your dreams more potent here - Chris Dombrowski "I'm working on a building"

Explodes with the shrapnel of the miraculous - Chris Dombrowski "It's so hard to dance that way, when it's cold and there's no music"

Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"

Rising even as they recede - Chris Dombrowski "Just Before Dark"

In the cacophonous gossip of currents - Chris Dombrowski "Just Before Dark"

An aspen missing half its leaves - Chris Dombrowski "Koan"

Feeding rosehips to the cat - Chris Dombrowski "Koan"

Our cadmium needles scatter - Chris Dombrowski "Larches"

The last drops of daylight shimmering - Chris Dombrowski "Late Evening Fugue"

Learned the mind of winter - Chris Dombrowski "Like a December apiary, the mind tapers"

Skipping across waves made of breath - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"

Strange constellations tracing his steps - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"

The wind's a mixture of linen and salt - Chris Dombrowski "Little Derivative and Forgivable Anthropomorphism with Dawn"

Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"

Coiling tighter with each brief orbit - Chris Dombrowski "May"

Feasted on the numb bugs - Chris Dombrowski "May"

Playing tetherball alone - Chris Dombrowski "May"

The crickets have curfews - Chris Dombrowski "Midwesterly"

A moose crossing the thin August river - Chris Dombrowski "Motherless Children (Traditional)"

Too steep for memory to climb - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"

Death was a wind searching the back of his hand - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"

No longer in the chair where dawn found me - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"

Strum a November midnight - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Lone as a thumbprint on a frosty windowpane - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Procured by the wind as its instrument - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Warm as whiskey chased down with cold water - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

To be worthy of this waking dream - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"

Grasshoppers black as burn - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"

Dusty as unlit chandeliers - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"

Beneath this burial of light - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"

A mid-June avalanche unseated the peak - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Filled with dawn's initial hue - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Until the offending dream gave way - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Some less threatening visions - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Water drawn from the cosmos's deepest well - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Blood rush of the creek - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

A deafening surround to these thoughts - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Buried warmly under the quilts - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Audibly sawing the ozone - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Slitting a seam in the void - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

A starling grasps the gutter - Chris Dombrowski "Poem Beginning and Ending with Haiku"

Inhabit that house of phantom dwelling - Chris Dombrowski "Poem Beginning and Ending with Haiku"

Who wouldn't talk to the birds - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"

The pheasant of an answer flushed - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"

The vale in which souls can drown - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"

Wind in the dead chime of the aspen - Chris Dombrowski "Rex's Georgic: Hunting Morels in Last Year's Burn"

The difference between thistles and burrs - Chris Dombrowski "Rex's Georgic: Hunting Morels in Last Year's Burn"

Late November's agate-light - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"

The worn steel of belt-hooked hammers - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"

Knowing little of cathedrals - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"

Winter fills summer's buckets - Chris Dombrowski "Runt Puppies in the Shade under the Porch"

The canvas on loan from Gabriel - Chris Dombrowski "See that my grave is swept clean"

An anchor plummeting geologically through grass - Chris Dombrowski "See that my grave is swept clean"

Pomp among the grain and barley - Chris Dombrowski "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"

Desperate for the meadow's coronation - Chris Dombrowski "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"

Parked among thistles - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"

Seven separate pictures of ants - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"

After the storm the firmament bled - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"

The river held in cupped hands - Chris Dombrowski "Serotonin"

Two crows rowing through the rain - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

The glasscut-moon healing into midday sky - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

These chambers full of fury - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Even the silos' shadows freeze - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Swift song keening against granite - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Broken glass from the self's smashed bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

The moon on the disbelieving cliffs - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Elephants watered at the hydrant - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Darkness from the Little Dipper's spoon - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"

The tattered hour when moths arrive - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"

Stars draining in their sockets - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

Down here in this lack of wind - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

Geese falling quiet as stardust - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

Invisible as a noon constellation - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"

Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"

Something as stubborn as the leaves - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

Sand flaring in silence as the iron strikes - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

Eluding dusk's clutch - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"

Examine the charred chaos of day - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"

Escaping with the last unshattered mirror - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"

Surrounded by stems bent by their seeds - Chris Dombrowski "Swale"

Rest your cheek on the shoulder of the mountain - Chris Dombrowski "Tablet"

Girls conversing with magpies - Chris Dombrowski "They Knew Each Leaf Contained the Rain and Sun"

It won't come till yesterday - Chris Dombrowski "They Knew Each Leaf Contained the Rain and Sun"

Allowed the wind its interludes - Chris Dombrowski "They Knew Each Leaf Contained the Rain and Sun"

The mast of a moored cottonwood - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

Opened the worn doors of his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

The pileated woodpecker's maniacal laugh - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

Found a route out through his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

In the weight of last year's skies - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"

Holding a bucket full of leaf-song - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"

As dawn stretched her blue shawl - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"

The guilt privilege affords - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"

Two shallow cups of shadow - Chris Dombrowski "A Toast"

The old tree burdened with herself - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Clasp me to this impossible hour - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

And quiet between bird calls - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Build their improbable nest of sunlight - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

The condemned warehouse of my chest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

In the house of an instant - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Towing her trailer of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Like some strange bouquet for her table - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Truer representation of the hours' ruse - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

About to sprout like a sudden hope - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

A gathering of larch trees - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"

Listening to billions of sand grains - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"

A curious lantern's cadmium - Chris Dombrowski "Van Gogh's Palette"

Silver of dew on a sickle - Chris Dombrowski "Van Gogh's Palette"

No less important than the light - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

Penitent coil of wick - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

The casual horror of the iron - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

Open this spare March evening - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

By now it's another life's list - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

A kite without a wind to fill it - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

A blackbird flying so quickly west - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

As if beneath the stoppage of time - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

The last statues worthy of adoration - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

Those things uttered by the seven tongues - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

The valley's light lapidary in the canyon creases - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

A bracelet adorning the land's pale wrist - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"

The thawing February afternoon - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"

Private islands made of water bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"

A phrase stricken from our language - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"

The hour the world wants most from me - Chris Dombrowski "Whittling"

Heralding a savior we've already missed - Chris Dombrowski "Wind's Heroics"

Ledger of its last minutes - Chris Dombrowski "Windowsill"

Fell sideways instead of down - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Brittle leaves sketching their way to rest - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Urging schools of mint fish into shallows - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"


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