The Tears of Things

Contents

Winter

1 Iowa Dreams

2 Midwinter Insomniac

3 Fat Tuesday Freeze

4 Second Chance Crack-up

6 Night of the Insistent Moon

7 Origami Storm

9 Origins of the World in a Greenhouse

10 Lithium Unplugged

12 Lenten Roses

13 Through Irish Eyes

Spring

17 642 Square Feet (Apartment Therapy)

19 House Finches

21 Dwarf Iris Blessing

22 Fauve Crocuses

23 Detached

25 Before Dogwood Winter

26 Death on a Sidewalk

27 Never a Moonlit Lie

28 My Father on D-Day and Mountain Shade

Summer

33 Swimming After Trout

34 Central Florida Postcard

35 Chattahoochee: Songs I Never Heard till Now

37 Coneflower Sequence

38 Peach Heat: Out of Hand

39 Deception

40 Nowhere Duet

41 The Shadow of My Father's Beard

43 Immersion

44 Summer Contained

Fall

47 Opening to Your Dark Eye

48 Royal Wind Riders

50 The New Orange

51 Around the Corner

53 Apple Chill

54 Blue Ridge Weather Report

55 October Martini

56 Persimmon Surrender

57 Autumn Coda, Winter Wondering

The Fifth Season

61 Birdwatch

62 Song on a Winter's Day

64 When You Need a Chat with Jesus

66 what's more

68 At Sunrise: Metta Meditation

70 Acknowledgments

72 Notes

73 About the Author