Spring : poems /
by Oni Buchanan.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008.
- 1 online resource.
- The national poetry series Illinois poetry series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- The Smallest Plant -- I. -- The Floor-Creatures Begin -- Song Cycle -- Amaryllis -- The Sleepers -- Vespers -- And on the Seventh Day -- (A) Version -- A Palimpsest of the Tasks -- Still-Life with Interior -- And of the Words Afterwards -- II. -- Envelopes of Sky -- Like a Near Fold -- Sublimation Attempt -- Solstice -- Where Are They Now, Unwilling Friends -- The Word -- Or Portals to Another World -- III. -- The Lonely Animal Dear Lonely Animal [Please share my Korean food with me]Dear Lonely Animal [Last night I wanted nachos again] -- Dear Lonely Animal [I miss you. The other animals] -- Dear Lonely Animal [Let's have a collection competition] -- Dear Lonely Animal [Sometimes I could just] -- Dear Lonely Animal [I'm writing to you from the loneliest, most] -- IV. -- Text Message -- The Practice -- That's Enough, Mr. Butterfly -- The Return -- A Hood Is Like an Ancient Chalice -- Maroon Canoe -- Today Mr. Rufo -- The Bells -- Spring -- V. The Mandrake Vehicles Note on the Mandrake Form[Mandrake Vehicle I] -- [not knowing enough to shriek when (not knowing when), they] -- (grid remainder after letter liftoff) -- (liquid layer I, excerpt) -- [Towing no ghost, no wing, the] -- (grid remainder after letter liftoff) -- (liquid layer 2, excerpt -- Winnowing heart -- [Mandrake Vehicle 2. -- [while the outpour, while the spilling tenets of green, the green] -- (grid remainder after letter liftoff) -- (liquid layer 1, excerpt) -- [Weep, Lethe's linnets, greet] -- (grid remainder after letter liftoff) (Liquid layer 2, excerpt)[Thin paeans rust] -- [Mandrake Vehicle 3. -- [for it promised sleep in delicate voice, for how must the] -- (grid remainder after letter liftoff) -- (liquid layer 1, excerpt) -- [Poised sin: deliver. Oust] -- (grid remainder after letter liftoff) -- (liquid layer 2, excerpt) -- [Silver U.S. bombs]