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The poem "Lines for the Wind," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: But that was all; Last Line: For good.

The poem "Lines for the New Year," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Consider the light, how it offers itself. To the roofs, to snow; Last Line: together.

The poem "Lines for a Storm," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: So he plucked out his feathers, went and sat by a tradesman's shop, Last Line: And she, in thus torrent, dissolves.

The poem "Lines of Refusal," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Nothing here, just the sound of the heat, the sound of the cars, Last Line: Each with the incomparable taste of its own life in its mouth.

The poem "Fragments for Linda,"by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: As mosses shore holes; Last Line: to kiss.

The poem "Sarah," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: And why such a loud voice? Leaning against a parked car, your; Last Line: sunlight through the glass.

The poem "Sarah," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: I was a bird. A bird in a play and my first line was "bird." Last Line: which, the birds.

The poem "Lines of Defense," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Their own sense of failure is what makes them so mean, Last Line: As the word "force," the word "ok," the words "drift" and "away"

The poem "Lines of Revision," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: There were people behind closed doors, people on the other side. Last Line: How it walks all over you.

The poem "Leapt," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Caught a fish breaking water to what unmakes her; Last Line: broken into hours, and those hours mercilessly sliced.

The poem "Supposition Poem," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: If silent at four the couch; Last Line: wall behind.

The poem "Grief Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Flit and click of the clock. Rim of my wrist; Last Line: body, as a small and forced wary focus.

The poem "Lines for What Is Broken," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Eyes downward and the bowl slipped from the table (the human's; Last Line: skin) then hit the floor.

The poem "Daylight Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Now flare. Now come to this, Now speaking of; Last Line: don't bend me, don't mold.

The poem "Landlocked Lines," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: There were people behind closed doors, people on he other side; Last Line: Then she gave up her spirit but couldn't get out.

The poem "Waiting Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Consider the weight of the face, the river at six, Last Line: and meals.

The poem "Lines to Scatter," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: A perfectly themeless piece of language, fallow in the lap of wave, Last Line: ever and ever, they..."

The poem "Of Sarah Again," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Fell asleep in a rowboat, head on your mother's thigh. When; Last Line: and elongated. So much so now.

The poem "Waiting Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: The diapered cat, set sideways on the couch. Last Line: Sun's panic fouls the day, folds the yellow pansy down.

The poem "Dream Fragment," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: In a theater the family fills two rows; Last Line: "How do we know when something is happening?" she asks.

The poem "Broken Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Lamp. Kicked from the end table. Last Line: handled rise again. Folded.

The poem "Birthday Fragments for Alice," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: If like a bird, then also like the upward breeze; Last Line: but she was not helpless, not at all.

The poem "Death Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented.First Line: smudged water glass; Last Line: no ferry.

The poem "Bird Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Coos in the dust of unwashed; Last Line: dirt.

The poem "Exhaustion Fragment," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: White curtains hang ceiling to floor; Last Line: white curtains hanging ceiling to—

The poem "Metaphor Poem," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Bits of food on the floor—abundance and decay; Last Line: A bit of food on the floor of her thought.

The poem "Sarah," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Then the quarry where I learned to swim. How you watched me; Last Line: And stilled the clouds.

The poem "Inward Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: To enter or to inter. Last Line: which and by which I am transparent.

The poem "Pregnancy Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: cave, the Greek word kyma: Last Line: at the same time entirely bound by.

The poem "Motherless Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Sucked tongue, mother's scarf, the overripe berries spill. Last Line: Speech not by speaking. Sleep never by sleep.

The poem "Insert: Detail Given," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Illness arrived first in the head. Felt in the eyes as a film. A; Last Line: wait simply or to hope less simply for her to give, over.

The poem "Self-Loathing Lines," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: There was nothing left but the lantern, the palisade, and the sky; Last Line: Away.

The poem "Futurity Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Her naked form in the dream; Last Line: some other life.

The poem "Sudden Fragment: Home," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: This life without animals without rain; Last Line: is remote.

The poem "Four-Syllable Lines (Monody)," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Sweet unrest still; Last Line: Her epic dust.

The poem "Sarah: Prosopopoeia," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: "I los the words for what I most cared about until uncaring I; Last Line: and no one could find my other."

The poem "Conception Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Heat teems from the meat of the form. Last Line: what heights after?

The poem "Bird Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Quail can't see, caught and bound; Last Line: tender dove, tremulous and bare.

The poem "Pregnancy Abstracts," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Slack as the cigarette smoker slouched in his seat then; Last Line: bit of coming, a flit or flash in the foot of it.

The poem "Fear Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: rodent in the fir tree; Last Line: of a left-by car.

The poem "City Gravity Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Verily beat; Last Line: what heights nymic.

The poem "Of Sarah," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Decay to the lemon. To the crust of bread. But not to the dog; Last Line: mother. Wander through.

The poem "Death Fragment," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Furrows of ash and; Last Line: into our room.

The poem "Of Sarah," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Years having passed, the foliage is wet: the final morning on; Last Line: had to give up the meaning of words. And then water.

The poem "Western Wind: An Ode," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: One's mother's brain's; Last Line: The body's a hole through which other bodies move.

The poem "Conception Fragment," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: daylight and tree buds; Last Line: in the open of your pregnancy.

The poem "Wheel," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Sometimes beaches; Last Line: shore.

The poem "Waiting Fragments," by Julie Carr is presented. First Line: Fluorescent exit hangs midair mid country; Last Line: The archivist whirls the unfurling losses.