Blue Angels

To read Peter Huggins, all one needs is a familiarity with two verbs: wonder and wish. He is continually wondering -- what would it be like to be a painter, to be a firefly, to talk with God? Ah, the reader thinks, I see: romantic daydreams. But then Huggins jerks us back to earth and reminds us why we should wish to be what we already are.

In one of the most touching poems in the collection, he wishes to be present at the meeting of an unborn child with her sister and brother -- he says he would "curl around the edges of their talk/And listen." Poetry fans, and all readers, will want to curl around this book and listen to Huggins's gentle true voice.

Blackberry Winter

9

(1)

The Salvage Diver

10

(2)

An Airfield in Alabama

12

(1)

Angels with Tongues of Fire

13

(2)

For the Man Who Struck a Small Boy One Wednesday Afternoon in Auburn

15

(2)

Jumping off Grandfather Mountain

17

(1)

Dusting

18

(2)

Fireflies After Rain

20

(1)

A Map of Orion

21

(1)

Choctaw Point

22

(1)

Eating Mortality

23

(1)

The Underwater Archangel

24

(1)

The Sound of the Trumpet at Loachapoka

25

(2)

Blue Angels

27

(2)

Descending Red River Dam

29

(1)

Mound State Park Museum

30

(2)

Yellow Chill

32

(1)

For the Woman Who Struck Randall Jarrell

33

(1)

Indian Summer

34

(1)

Cutting Missionary Ridge

35

(1)

Eating Angels

36

(2)

The Photographer's Aria

38

(2)

The Day the Soldiers Came

40

(1)

Standing Mortality

41

(2)

Strangers and Saints Massachusetts, 1622

43

(1)

My Razor the Dog

44

(1)

Tenuous Mortality

45

(1)

On a Print of Piranesi

46

(2)

Taking My Cuts

48

(1)

Finding an Angel

49

(1)

Anxious Mortality

50

(1)

The Multiplying Man

51

(2)

Blue Hydrangeas

53

(1)

Hans Sachs at the Bench

54

(1)

Riding into the Dark

55

(2)

A Field of Millet

57

(1)

Webster's Bar

58

(1)

After Dinner at the Moongate

59

(1)

The Suttee

60

(2)

Reaching into the Abyss

62

(1)

Anthropology

63

(2)

Ghosting Air

65

(1)

Almost New Orleans, Almost Now

66

(1)

The Rat Man of Paris

67

(1)

Looking into the Abyss

68

(1)

The Blue Corsair

69

(2)

Painting Mortality

71

(1)

What the Dead Want

72

(1)

Monster Story

73

(2)

The Japanese Garden

75

(1)

The Meditating Man

76

(1)

The Death of Perry Mason

77

(1)

Rowan Oak

78

(1)

The Wolfe House (My Old Kentucky Home)

79

(1)

Pomegranates

80

(1)

In Hunter's Wood

81

(1)

The Argument of Wasps

82

(1)

Light Soldiers

83

(1)

The Grackle War

84

(1)

Raccoon

85

(2)

Digging

87

(1)

For an Unborn Child

88

(2)

On the Feast of St. John Chrysostom

90

(1)

Cutting My Losses

91

(2)

The Dead Shall Be Raised Indestructible

93

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