The Track the Whales Make

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction by Ted Kooser -- I Could Taste It: New Poems -- The Shirt I Would Have Bought You -- Sometimes I Remember to Watch -- When You Write the Story -- We Wait for the Trogon -- So Bad I Could Taste It -- I Had a Marriage in Those Days -- What I Shouted and He Shouted -- Charmed by the Dirt Road -- To the Cattle in the Dream -- The Moon is a Swan -- This is How I Bow Down in Homage -- Kindness Scraped Up the Money -- It's a Small Breath -- Not Enough Space in Storage Device -- Hope Springs -- From LEARNING TO SWIM, 2019 -- Weren't We Beautiful -- I Save My Love -- Every Last Thing Is Transitory -- Plastic Bag on the Lawn -- Edith Porath Nelson, You Signed Your Quilt -- After the Divorce the Soccer Game -- What She Taught Me -- To the Author I'm Reading at Night -- This Year I Did Not -- This is the Photo of My Father Before -- He Taught Me to Drive -- I Pretend I Can Remember -- The One with Violets in Her Lap -- For the Record -- The Citrus Thief -- Insomnia is a Streetlight -- From THE WOMAN IN THE MOON, 2018 -- The Nobody Bird -- My Love With His Saw Has Taken the Cedar Down -- When Life Seems a To-Do List -- Each Wrong Choice Was a Horse I Saddled -- What I Think My Real Self Likes -- My Mother the Child -- What He Needed -- Final Shirt -- Despair Woke Me -- Ah, Charles, If You Could Have -- What Did You Think Love Would Be? -- About that Smart Thinly-Veiled Stuff -- My Daughter Tells Me She Loves Me -- Green Ash -- My Notes in Margins -- From I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT FIRE, 2016 -- The Track the Whales Make -- She Gives Me the Watch Off Her Arm -- The Story, Part of It -- How I Left You -- Bad News, Good News -- Thanksgiving for Two -- We Disagree -- Let Me Think of the Frost that Will Crack Our Bones -- Draw What is There -- Those Pieces We Carry -- What I Think My Father Loved -- It Does Not Have to Be Worth the Dying -- Last Day of Kindergarten -- For My Daughter -- From LOSING THE RING IN THE RIVER, 2013 -- Clara Says I Do -- Clara Loses the Ring -- When I Have Hurt Him as Much as I Can -- Potato Soup -- I Was New and Shiny -- Playing My Cards -- Let Me Be the First Snake of Spring -- To the Moon in the Morning -- Note to My Father After All These Years -- I Leaned in Close -- Take, Eat; This is My Body -- You and I, the Cranes, the River -- From BESIDE YOU AT THE STOPLIGHT, 2010 -- Pulling Up Beside My Husband at the Stoplight -- Weekends, Sleeping In -- Even the Alphabet -- On the Road -- Template -- I Didn't Know I Loved -- Stand-In -- She Was Perhaps Dead -- Labor -- Textile -- For My Body -- I Want to Be a Man -- You Can't Say I -- Mammogram -- You Wonder Why We Don't Get Along -- Her Kid Brother Ran Beside the Car -- We Visit the Homestead -- One Finger Wave -- From LOST IN SEWARD COUNTY, 2001 -- The Sisters Play Canasta in a Snowstorm -- Overheard at the Cafe -- Otto -- As Long as Someone Remembers -- Summer, Striking -- You Gave Me a Typewriter -- Lying on the Driveway, Studying Stars -- Holed Up in Valentine, Nebraska -- Prairie Pretends to Be Mild -- The Muse Is a Little Girl -- Night Flight -- From BONES OF A VERY FINE HAND, 1999 -- Resurrection -- The Green Coat -- Keeping My Mother Warm -- Saying Yes on the Road -- Perfume Counter, Dillards -- The World Was Not Enough -- Loving Her in the Mountains -- I Let My Daughter Down -- Cutting My Hair -- Washing the Walls -- Taking the Baby to the Marsh -- Shopping -- Storm at Night -- I Want to Create -- The Last Thing He Said -- Today.