(AGAINST SILENCE)
In every direction...

PLOT
The sad story...

HISTORICAL EPISODE
two feet of clay...

NINE SIGNATURES
In your head, slender curlicues of blood...

LIFE
no one survives it...

10/11
creeping naked around a church...

MYSTERY
I found the murdered man's ______ in my hand...

THEFT OF A LINE FROM STRAND
Torment of love--...

STOP MY EARS
in the middle of the night...

HIDING
in the forest...

SECRECY
A long time till dawn...

UNLUCKY MOON
the tin fear...

SEARCHING
Broken sky, light rain...

BLANK OF BLANKS
no hand can hold...

FALLING
A fine grace of falling is in the leaves...

AT DAWN
Darkness breaks away from...

AT THE PLACE
Standing where something died...

STRANGE FISHING
Blameless...

BEING DEAD
it can't kill you...

JUDAS IS IN HELL
our child-life with its magical intents...

GETTING PEACE
I got inside...

LISTENING TO THE DEAD
you have it all your way...

HEAVEN
is this what it means...

Dear Eric,

I am your grandfather's grandfather and through my wakeless 
sleep I dream of you. I want to meet you somewhere soon.

I still have the same black suit and halfwild white beard 
you've seen in that brown old photograph on the guest room dresser. 
I was buried in that stiff suit. What clothes do you wear? 
Are they thick and plain? Walking behind my plow, I keep my eye 
on my neighbor's land. Where do you plow?

I have one fear: that we will meet and fall into enmity. 
But I have this fever to speak with you, and so I ask you: 
where can we meet? 

Samuel Rensberger