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The poem "I've Been Telling the Story Wrong for Years "represented by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: "Everyone smiles at the story: the famous writer" Last Line: "She was afraid, too. And she walked home alone"

The poem "Silt and the Angels' Share" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: This pillar is the nilometer at Cairo, Last Line: When did we start believing we could die?

The poem "The Comfort of Pickup Trucks" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: I want warriors at my funeral, Last Line: away from that heat changing flesh to story.

Presents the poem "Mount Saint Helens, May 18, 1980," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: "They never found the body." Put five hundred; Last Line: standing at ground zero of your joy.

Presents the poem "Peripheral: Emerson, 1847," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: Bill says I'm right, he learned it in the service— Last Line: Lace is a regular pattern of absences.

The poem “ Children in the Church” by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: are the white the artist adds-- Last Line: oysters inhale the catalyst of pearls.

The poem "Revisionism" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Grandpa shrugged when the feds at the kitchen door; Last Line: it wasn’t my mother who called those agents in.”

The poem "Jesus, Take the Wheel," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: It's on the radio again, that song; Last Line: and confused chickens convince me every time.

The poem "Every Danger Otherwise the Same," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Plane goes down in the Potomac through the ice. Last Line: Or a hand on his arm. Just talking to him.

The poem "Divine Office Hours" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Give me an inch. Let's say that prayer is good, Last Line: I just start the car, boot up, bend the knee.

The poem "Knitting Lace," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Like any widow, any amputee, Last Line: past their ankles.

The poem "November" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: It all was golden, the last perfect day, Last Line: Salt's not a meal, but every meal needs salt.

The poem "The Fourth Ring " by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: I couldn't get her rings off without soap, Last Line: I tossed it out. I wish now that I hadn't.

The poem "What Have You Done For Your Marriage Today?" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: demands the turnpike billboard over the shoulders Last Line: sharing a bowl of dates as the stars came out?

Presents the poem "Elegy from Halfway Up the Drive," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: First time this year. I'm idling up the drive, Last Line: We've got all day. I settle down to stare.

Presents the poem "Boliche," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: All through high school Paul's nickname was Boliche; Last Line: out, and if you're lucky, más Boliche.

The article presents the poem "Pattern and Ground," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: All April I woke, Last Line: sweet, sweet, sweet.

The article presents the poem "Gaudeamus, Full Band Version," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: Eric Clapton's "Layla" is a mess; Last Line: that smile concealed behind the big gray beard.

The article presents the poem "Benediction, Off-Beat," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: I've come to see Katie ordained, but I smell trouble. Last Line: out of our separate skins, to move, to be moved.

Presents the poem "Tell Me If You've Heard This One," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey.

The poem "Things Nick Told Me" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Mango and lacquer and poison ivy share; Last Line: Do it a third time. Then, finally, play it right.

The poem "Ode to Clichés" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Praise for what's not original, for clichés: Last Line: dense and crunchy with small seeds of truth.

The poem "Blood Ghazal" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Only the poor can quote the price of blood. Last Line: not like a hatching but like a splice of blood.

The poem "Me and My Parrots: Frida Kahlo, 1941" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Woolf told us any good biography; Last Line: Even the cigarette. Especially.

The poem "A Story of Small Subversions," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: You know that story about the King of Denmark; Last Line: A story of small subversions. And yet. And yet.

The poem "Comfort," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: When a friend is suffering we become; Last Line: sit with a grunt, begin her tuneless song.

The poem "Margaret Fuller's Recurring Dream," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: Hurricane, sandbar, and the beach in view. Last Line: No dream. A dawn this awful must be true.

The poem "Sow's Ear," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey is presented. First Line: I paid a fortune for this horrible yarn; Last Line: I know I'm going to go all the way.

Presents the poem "January, Tulips," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: Wheat would not outlast man seven years, Last Line: saved from the natural to be themselves.

Presents the poem "Neruda in Kalamazoo," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: Neruda shakes his head at Kalamazoo, Last Line: Well. Perhaps. He opens his paper, sips.

The article presents the poem "And All Trades, Their Gear and Tackle and Trim," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: Hopkins got it right, the way the mind; Last Line: in Strathmore four-ply, plate-finish Bristol board.

Presents the poem "Storytellers," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: Professional storytellers creep me out, Last Line: its bristly chin on your shoulder, its breach in your ear.

The article presents the poem "Stalling," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey. First Line: I'm teasing out this chickweed's single root, Last Line: the sky hum, toss the bright weed on the heap.

Presents the poem "Lip Service," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey.

Presents the poem "Amplification," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey.

Presents the poem "The Story I Like Best About Saint Teresa," by Susan Blackwell Ramsey.