Heart in a Jar - McGookey, Kathleen

Kathleen McGookey: Kathleen McGookey has published two books of poems, two chapbooks, and We’ll See, a book of translations of French poet Georges Godeau’s prose poems.  She has received grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Table of Contents


Dear Death 7
Mended II 8
Folk Tale 9
Thank You for Your Question 10
This Was My Real Life 11
Like Stars 12
Reasons I Might Understand 13
Death, Yesterday 14
Hippopotamus Hide Box 15
Into the Dollhouse 16
The Life Below 17
In My Pink Room 18
The Second-Hand Star 19
Death, Let?s Find 20
At the School Costume Parade 21
Monkey Island 22
Tornado Machine 23
Windfall 24
In My River 25
Possum Skull in the Field 26
Pain Lake 27
Death, Now Where?s the Skinny Stray 28
Dr. Holtgrieve, DDS 29
Another Kind of Pain 30
The Grief Jacket Project 31
Corrections 32
Private 33
Death, Vary Your Question 34
At the Football Game 35
Like His Heart in a Jar 36
When My Son Goes to Middle School, I Read Audubon 37
Pull Up Your Red Pickup 38
Homesickness 39
Good Reason 40
Postcard from a Little Boat 41
Once 42
The Zoo in Winter 43
At the Dance Lesson 44
The Day After a Girl Sprouted in the Flowerbed 45
Fairy Tale 46
The Day?s Catch 47
It?s March, Death 48
Under the Red Umbrella 49
Illness in October 50
Sleeping Bear 51

On the Day of the Dead 52
Reverence for Life Service 53
Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Emotions 54
Take this Scrap of My Words, 55
Passage 56
Lighthouse Tour, South Manitou Island 57
To Clarify: 58
Today, On Norris Road 59
At the John Ball Zoo 60
At the Zoo, Again 61
The Long Silence 62
P.S., Death 63
Apology to My Son 64

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