Cold Snap As Yearning

Whether confronting a gravel road, a hallucinatory vision of a horse-woman, a deep sensitivity to noise, or the curiosity of crows, Robert Vivian sees the world in a novel way, and this collection gives readers the opportunity to share his unique and intriguing vision.

Robert Vivian’s stories, poems, essays, and plays have appeared in Georgia Review, Harper's, Glimmer Train, Massachusetts Review, Creative Nonfiction, Cross Currents, New Intensity, The Best Men's/Women's Stage Monologues of 1996–1998, and dozens of other publications. Many of his plays have been produced in New York City. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan.

Acknowledgments

ix

ROOTEDNESS

Hereafter in Fields

3

(5)

Clean Gravel Roads

8

(6)

Shooting Churches

14

(7)

Small Rain

21

(3)

Cold Snap as Yearning

24

(6)

Dreams I Had of Hiding

30

(6)

Anthem

36

(9)

WOMEN

Mrs. Brock Alive in the World

45

(5)

Horse-Woman

50

(5)

The Taxonomy of Garbage

55

(5)

Reading the Mail

60

(5)

Deliverance of Dolls

65

(7)

The Dignity of Crumbs

72

(9)

SIGNS

The Dark Hangnails of God

81

(9)

The Tides, the Tides

90

(11)

Conducting Buses

101

(4)

Light Calling to Other Light

105

(5)

Rex and Cleopatra

110

(6)

Listening to Mahler

116

(5)

Opera of Trouble

121

(9)

Bugs of Noise

130

(7)

Empty Cages

137

(4)

Las Vegas in Three Parts

141

(6)

Driving to the River

147

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Cold Snap As Yearning

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