Poem Lists

I set out to write a list in this entry of six poems or so from Thirst to write about closely in my essay but I nearly ended up simply copying out the table of contents. It would be simpler to list the ones that are that interesting to me or relevant to my topic--probably just the poem, "The Poet Thinks about the Donkey."

I can't write about it all, though. As Ruth Salvaggio told me, "Everything is partial." Here is a list, then, of a little more than a dozen poems that I feel I want to include:

Messenger
When I Am Among the Trees
Musical Notation: 1
After Her Death
Cormorants
What I Said at Her Service
Coming to God: First Days
The Vast Ocean Begins Just Outside Our Church: The Eucharist
More Beautiful Than the Honey Locust Tree Are the Words of the Lord
Praying
Six Recognitions of the Lord
The First
The Uses of Sorrow
On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate (Psalm 145)
Thirst

Since I have two projects I'm working on here, a conference paper and a longer thesis essay, I'll be able to build a shorter and longer list. If, allowing for references to other poems, I had to limit my discussion to three close readings (which I may have to do for my conference paper), I would have to write about these ones:

Messenger
After Her Death
Thirst