A necklace of bees poems / by Dannye Romine Powell.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Loss Waits on the Porch; The Child and I; Everyone Is Afraid of Something; I Stopped Drinking in Hopes Loss Would Stop, Too; Daddy Tosses Them Down; Loss Received a Letter Once; The Avalanche; You Have Ruined Us for the Pragmatic World; Two Sisters in Their Gabardine Skirts; My Mother's Lips; How Her Words Entered Me When She Called to Say My Father Had Died at Last after Ten Months of Pain; After the Stroke; Loss Touched Death Once; All I Know for Certain; It Is Said That Wigmakers; The Gaudy Clothes of Tourists; This Morning; Loss Dreams He Hears Sobbing; Dying from the Feet Up.

Loss Calls the CopsWhen He Told Her; Why She Plants Lavender; Your Beautiful Hands; She Told Me the Dead Woman's Husband Had Been Running Around for Years; The Train Whistle; Arranging a Life; Poem Beginning with a Line from Walker Percy; Loss Says He's Moving to the Beach; Events; Loss Considers the Idea of Bliss; You Can't Write Off the Dead; To Lose Something; Briefly, I Was Asleep; The Stepping-Stone Kit; I Took My Mother Shopping; I Knew a Boy; The Best I Can Do For Her; Why I Miss Visiting My Mother-in-Law in Helena, Arkansas; The Villa.

I Want to Write a Poem I'd Be TooEmbarrassed to Read to My Monday NightPoetry GroupThe Dual Nature of Grief; Loss Hungers for Something; A Place Airy and Fraught.

IEveryone Is Afraid of SomethingLoss Waits on the Porch000The Child and I000Everyone Is Afraid of Something000I Stopped Drinking in Hopes Loss Would Stop, Too000Daddy Tosses Them Down000Loss Received a Letter Once 000The Avalanche000You Have Ruined Us for the Pragmatic World000Two Sisters in Their Gabardine Skirts000My Mother's Lips 18How Her Words Entered Me When She Called to Say My Father Had Died at Last after Ten Months of Pain000After the Stroke000Loss Touched Death Once000IIThe Earth Beneath the EarthAll I Know for Certain000It Is Said That Wigmakers000The Gaudy Clothes of Touri.

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