What begins with bird

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I am grateful, as ever, to Will Eno and Gordon Lish — fierce readers and dear friends. Thank you, Dara. Also Lisa. I thank Francesco Clemente, the good Dick B., and — for his eye and ear — Ralph Berry. Thank you, Melissa Kathleen, for the courage of your example. I thank, with everything in me, my children — Benjamin Reno, and Phoebe Louise. May you prosper!

The author gratefully acknowledges the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the MacDowell Colony, for their generous support during the writing of this book.

“Rooster Pollard Cricket Goose” and a portion of “What Begins with Bird” originally appeared in Conjunctions; “Coquina” in The American Voice; “Fairway” in Black Warrior Review; “Time for the Flat-headed Man” in Open City; “Someone is always Missing” in Glimmer Train.

I start the bulbs in the window the day she flies in from Mississippi. I stand them up in bowls of the gravel that I scraped from the driveway with a spoon hours ago, when the ground still showed. Now the yard is a blank of snow. The crocuses are buried and broken.

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