Title: Natural disasters; [poems]
Authors: Stokes, Terry.
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 1971
Contents: Natural Disasters -- A Break In the Weather -- Nobody To Do Her Up Right -- Aunt Elenore -- So Simple The Sadder People -- What She Did With the Snake -- Trees From Some Past Life -- It Is Not Halloween -- The Grandmother -- Phil Rizzuto's Daughter -- The Girl With Buckteeth & other dreams -- Bloodsuckers -- Mother -- Some Styles of Road Magic -- The Dervish Whirls -- The Consistency of the Heart -- Reality Cabbage -- I don't Know why you Say Good-by, I Say Hello -- The Neighbor Lady -- What WE Dreamed For Our Children -- The Farmer -- The Games People Play -- The Voyeur -- The Definitive Bird Poem -- It Isn't The Clothes You Wore, That Soon Went Out of Style -- The Festival of Life -- Flowers Sink Their Roots -- God Knows, We Do What We Can -- Don't Endanger Your Most Valuable Possession, Your Credit Rating, Pay Your Bills by the Tenth -- The Fireman -- They Die Addressing Rotary Club Luncheons -- The Dead Sheep of Skull Valley -- The Stiff Barricades -- A Poem for Seals All Over the World -- The Carnival of Combs -- Getting Married In the Cemetery -- Drugs For the Head -- The Flight -- Winter, Flowers -- Birds -- The River Dradger -- On Living Around Other People -- For the Guy Who Wrote the Dictionary -- Skin Flowers -- Rolling Along -- Light Sources & Vultures -- Ashes -- The Week the Nature Center Was Closed.