Start with the trouble : poems /
by Daniel Donaghy.
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (x, 75 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Stadium traffic -- Tug of war -- Still life with air conditioner -- The birth-control lesson -- The kiss -- Start with the trouble -- Grinding stone at Sand Creek -- Pieta -- Cold -- Laertes and the sandwiches -- For a poet missing and presumed dead -- My father's patron saints -- Landscape with bikers -- Walt -- The medicine of immortality -- The parking lot -- Bruce Springsteen at Aeaea -- Touch -- Rooftop -- Baby tunes -- Why I quit -- The car -- Santa and the sled dogs -- Burglar -- Abigail's sandals -- Abigail's birthday party -- Rally -- The loop -- Bottle to throttle, or, After reading about the drunk astronauts, I recall my Uncle Joe driving me to school on Friday mornings -- Rabbit -- My mother in Connecticut -- Walking to first grade -- The spirit of the promise -- Hope.