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    Sky-loving Sleepwalker
    Sky-loving Sleepwalker
    Sky-loving Sleepwalker
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    Sky-loving Sleepwalker

    By Charles Hibbard

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    A collection of poems about people, animals, history, the natural world, love, and death.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Hibbard
    Release dateMar 29, 2021
    ISBN9781005439217
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      Sky-loving Sleepwalker - Charles Hibbard

      Sky-Loving Sleepwalker

      Charles Hibbard

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      Copyright 2021 Charles Hibbard

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      Table of Contents

      Animals

      1. Animal Care and Control

      2. Bark

      3. Co-evolution

      4. Deer Mouse

      5. Used Finch

      6. Fire

      7. Golden-crowned Kinglet II

      8. Lost Warbler

      9. Encounter

      10. Luck of the Draw

      11. Late August

      12. Tinkering

      13. Fall Migration

      History

      14. Manzanar

      15. The Black Bathing Suit

      16. Outdoor Art Show, Darwin CA

      17. A Day of Rest

      18. Broken Bridge

      19. Ex-exit

      20. Motorcycle Accident

      21. Moving Day

      22. P.A.M. Dirac's Cat

      23. Sappho's Moon and Ours

      24. Theseus et al.

      25. Fur Traders on the Missouri

      26. Uta-napishti

      27. Weather

      28. X-treme Camping

      29. Burning Down the House

      30. After She's Gone

      31. Out of the Wind

      The Other World

      32. Bottleneck

      33. The End of Nature

      34. The Grass

      35. Street Tree

      36. Twilight, Mono Craters

      One Point of View

      37. Guest Room

      38. The Illusion of Future

      39. Second Childhood

      40. Toward Mission Bay

      41. Poetry in Motion

      42. Driver

      The Two of Us

      43. Below Venus

      44. Change of Heart

      45. Memory Foam

      46. Spandrel

      47. Three Dreams

      48. To Judith, Yarn-Bombing

      49. Piano, Falling

      Animals

      1. Animal Care and Control

      For a moment he’s a mythical beast

      flying the pavement upside down,

      as though heaven had hardened

      to concrete. But the world has just

      rolled over him, this pigeon,

      panting, helpless on the street

      and blinking a fearful eye.

      I watch him, tense as a cat,

      entranced by the futile

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