Babylon in a Jar
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: April 25, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780618126972
First sentence: I couldn't stand still watching them forever, but when I moved the grackles covering each branch and twig sprang together into flight and for a moment in midair they held the tree's shape, the black tree peeling from the green, as if they were its shadow or its soul, before they scattered, circled and re-formed as grackles heading south for winter grain fields.