The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars (EPUB) von Roseann Lloyd

The poet's brother disappears mysteriously in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. These deeply felt poems explore loss, grief, acceptance.

ContentsPart One: Circumambulation: Without a Body to Mourn Neither Here Nor There: What They Said 6 Cold Up North 8 My Brother's Tears 9 First Summers and the Last: The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars 11 Memory: Layers like Mica 13 Lloyd Lloyd 14Messing Around in Boats 16 But Were You Mad? 17 Autumnal 18 What It Was Like Today: November 13, 2005 19 My Assigned Humans and Myself 22 Mirror: Solstice Sun 22 First Blank Christmas 27 Winter Solstice 28 Touchy about His Feet 29 In My Poems Since You Left Us 30 Walking the Ice Age Trail the First Spring After 31 April, Baby 32 Father 37 A Small Change in the Map: On the Trail to Whisky Jack Lake 38 Part Two: Echolocation: Three Degrees of Grief 21st Century Communion 41 Three Friends at True Thai, Discussing the Phrase You'll Never Get over It 42 The Family of Frederico García Lorca Stands against the Exhumation of His Remains 43 Missing Student Found in River 44 Grade School Principal and His Wife Take the Visiting Poet to the Best Restaurant in Town 45Still Missing: 500,000 46 Heartland M.I.A. 47 Love, Salvage 49 Who's Missing on Mt. Everest? 50 Part Three: Navigation: Standing Still The Labyrinth, Winter Solstice 53 Have Drum Will Journey 54 Leaving the New Book on Grief 56EpilogueWalking the Trail to Angleworm Lake, Six Years After He Died 58Notes on the Poems 60 Notes on the Boundary Waters 61