Almost Home

      Poetry & Photography by Debra Shirley

 

       Contents:

 

1. Fractal

2. Promised Land

3. Who, Here, Remembers Their Name?

4. ’39 Prairie State

5. found wanting

6. My Mother’s Hands

7. Hauling Water

8. Before the Age of Twelve

9. Riches a Poor Man is Wont to Turn Up

10. Come Evening

11. Grieving Moon

12. Grand Daddy

13. Running the River Regret

14. Topography of a Grudge

15. Found Word Poem No. 1

16. Between Love and a Hard Place

17. At the Hands of a Poet

18. Night on Your Sailboat

19. Bodies in Motion

20. Undertow

21. nothing ever happens in this town

22. I Dream of the French Countryside

23. What Must Go Unsaid

24. Nola

    1. Night

    2. Day

25. Warp and Weft: The Architecture of Longing

26. Wait for It…

27. Division of Marital Assets (or Carving Fowl)

28. Still Life in Blue

29. Feet to Earth

30. Code

31. I Know, I Know, But God I Miss Smoking

32. Sun, Descending

33. At Last Count

34. Two Sides of the Same Curtain

35. Come October

36. The Sound of a Marching Band Always Did Make Me Cry a Little

37. Since April

38. Grounded

39. The Evolution of Clouds

40. Under the Flowering Sumac Tree

41. Always in August

42. Eyes Lifted

43. Flares

44. The Ocean of You Never Changes

45. In the Face of Such Abundance

46. Homing In

47. Reflections From A Southern Porch

48. Another Song in Praise of Stillness

49. The Names of Things

50. Wretched Sedge

51. The Persistent Trillium

52. Almost Home

53. And Haven’t Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us

54. Sweet By and By