Time You Let Me In电子书

Dedication

Contents

What Is Confidence?

Introduction Naomi Shihab Nye

Nicole Guenther

Photons

Experiments in Fire

Overlapping

Membership

Chase Berggrun

Question

your father is not with us any longer son

do you think…

shrunk

Lauren Espinoza

where I live,

Borderlands, Texas—

Throne

death & taxes

Mackenzie Connellee

window seat 6A

Burkina Faso

invitation

suggestion

Brianne Carpenter

For My Mom

Plain Stories: Chronology of a Cotton Farmer

Christmas

Pupil

Catherine Bates

The Shooting Range on Mother’s Day

Through the Barn Doors

Paynes Prairie

A Lesson on Fire

Mary Selph

Fourth or fifth love

Beside a broken-down bus on an overpass outside Philadelphia

My mother decides to seek candidacy as a Methodist minister

Growing up in woods

Gray Emerson

The Indexer in Love

The Many Secrets of T. S. Eliot

Ode to Isabella’s Hair

Last Words

Michelle Brittan

Larry’s Produce

Fluency

Other Renaissance

Rootless

Henry Mills

Tortillas

The Torch

Run

Henry the Horse

Emily Hendren

The first Halloween

Yogurt

Aragón

A recent poem

Lauren Stacks

Evolution of a Writer

Macaroni Love

Rain, Snow, and Other Weather

You Should Stop Sending

Jonah Ogles

Belle Union, Indiana

on Sunday mornings

as far back as I can remember

frostbite

Emma Shaw Crane

poem for my name

kitchen witness

to answer your questions, reportback beirut

prayer for a soldier back from baghdad

Lauren Eriks

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

My Mother and Merlot: An Un-Still Life

The Color November: Title

Sweat Lodge Prayer

Jocelyn Stott

A Game of Table Tennis, In Remembrance

Veteran’s Day

“MADNESS”

When They Came to Re-Tar the Streets

Anna West

Still Growing

What It Is

Maple Hands in a Wisconsin November, Age 10

Something to Balance

Amal Khan

Songs of War

To Be Two

Summer Aches

Listen with Care

Margaret Bashaar

Living with a Bodhisattva Cat Is Intimidating

To My Lover, Who Tells Me He Is Old

My Summer with the Norseman

Severe

Tala Abu Rahmeh

Upon Arrival

Comfort Poem

The Falling Man (and every person who jumped from the twin towers as they fell to the ground)

I Hear Quran

Kayla Sargeson

Thanksgiving Wishes for My Grandfather

To My Grandfather, a Year Later

To My Rapist, after a Tour of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans

The Happiest Moment of My Life Was When I Realized I Was Happy

Ben Westlie

And there are Ghosts

The Groom’s Man

Looking at Her Canvases

Finding Our Flag

Matthew Baker

foundling

sidewalk chalk

ode to poetry

dying man on a hospital bed

Allison Rivers

Even Before You

Turning Seven in the Pediatrics Unit

The Giving Tree

The Dead Woman Left Her Signature in the Front of My Book, or What I Have Left

Laura Lee Beasley

Double Elegy

Leaving

Nothing

The Egyptians

Mario Chard

Sacrament

Noticing the Lesion

On the Question of What Drives Coronary Circulation, Biology Class, Morgan High School, 1999

To Know the Difference

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgments

About the Editor

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher