To embroider the ground with prayer : poems / by Teresa J. Scollon.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments -- Invitation -- Drought year -- Mid-life, I'm lost -- Reciprocity -- Autobiography: falling -- Family music -- Yoga master at the party -- Catechism -- July fourth -- Friday nights the whole town goes to the basketball game -- John's a teacher -- Doc tells a story on horse piss Wilson -- Goodbye to Dwight Lipke -- Death and the photocopier -- Exile -- Grief in the morning -- Conference room in Bloomington, Minnesota -- Old horse -- Pigeon lady -- New Year's Day, Winslow Beach, Maine -- Meeting with the game wardens -- Summer solstice in Black River falls -- Little boat -- How my mother loves flowers -- Three A M: Prelude -- What opens -- Untitled -- Poem to my brothers and sisters -- View from flight 616 -- Moon -- While I stood in obedient line according to the dictates of another round-trip ticket -- Commerce -- First-Bob-ever handles a Middle East situation -- Halloween at Gross's meat market -- Visit -- Last cat -- At the crematory -- Widow talks about black holes -- Everything's in motion -- Mitchell's story -- Dad hides his shakiness by telling a story -- Caesura -- Dubrovnik -- Nine -- Words, poems -- Across the tracks -- Garden.

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English.