Dummy Fire
Sarah Vap

Saturnalia Books
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Everything Offered Happens
• kansas, my birth.
• Sister Sleepwalks in Kona
• Who knows how long this way
• Nightmare
• Land of Blue Snow: A Christmas Poem 
• do it the way god does it
• Fisherman's Christmas
• Paper tigers, paper snowflakes
• Eventide
• Crackpot
• crying into the rushlight and candlelight of winter - how blake was born
• Poem translated loosely from the Lithuanian
• the midnight tree, oh grass
• Christmas Morning: Dying the Saint's Beard
• The Built-In Accident
• Such Sunlight 
• What the greedy sun will do next
• Birthright
• The Two of Us At One O'Clock
• Under the Window, a Square of Light
• Cure Chair
• X times X is X
• Essay on Skinning a Fox
• Burning the Tick off the Snake
• Spring Ranch, Nebraska
• What you've taught me - 
• more you never get to know
• Conception of Thief-Horse (I am Thief-Horse)
• On Trading Strings for Clefts
• Earth's Second-Skin
• A good head on my shoulders.
• Midnight's Prism
• the night finds hard to find
• Thinned by fire, the groves -
• Body on the Mountain
• Snippets, overheard at his wedding
• Patients in your letter
• a dressing-down. a talking-to. the once-over clean-breast of it.
• How we separate
• Blue-Norther
• The Hunters
• January
• Surly Piggies
• Steak/Pork
• Trees have been witness
• Horse-Boat
• Prophecy Spots




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