Title: The disappearing act /
Authors: Hughes, Sara Pirkle
Year: 2018
Subjects: American poetry Women authors; American poetry
Contents: The kingdom of childhood -- What you must understand -- After the bankruptcy -- Watching an old Springsteen concert on TV -- Kissing Harry Chapin -- Cicadas -- Something closer to joy -- Where I come from -- My hometown -- Field trips -- The sharecropper's son -- The miller and his wife -- Doe and fawn -- What hurts -- My brother pushing the tire swing -- My grandfather in the pulpit -- My grandmother in her kitchen -- My husband in the coffee shop -- My twin sister in the paint shop -- My father counting change at closing -- My father holding his father's hand -- My younger sister riding shotgun -- My mother after my fourth round of chemo -- The miracle of hands -- Your laughing, or my trying to make it happen -- That edge -- Why we couldn't say -- Waking up at 4 A.M. on my neighbor's porch -- View from a bench in February -- Pretend you don't owe me a thing -- Forget him -- Beginning with a line from Millay -- A simile for his name -- The morning after strip poker -- The difference between a man and a woman -- Anniversary dinner -- The baker -- If love exits -- One song -- The conjoined -- Painting blackbirds -- Study abroad -- Advice to my sister about men -- The phone call -- The makeout party -- Declaration of a lab panther -- American tease -- How we learn -- At twenty -- At thirty -- At sixty -- Reflection -- Elegy for a stranger -- Lullaby.