Beasts of the Hill

MARK NEELY teaches at Ball State University, edits a literary magazine, The Broken Plate, and lives in Muncie with his wife, writer Jill Christman, and their two children.

• Four Falls • Funeral • Self-Portrait with Straw Hat • Four Fields • Lovers’ Meal • Einstein’s Alphabet • Four Blues • I Pick a Fist-Fight with the Sky • Four Mirrors • Cardinal • Family Story • Four Years • Inside a Pine • Poem Scratched in an Old Foundation • Four Shades • More News from the Flood • Meachem Road • Four Lanes • Woods Beyond the Pond • Four Names • Eighteen Hours • Night Deaths • Four Wheels • Twenty-First Century Vacation • One View • Four Suns • A Port in Air • After the Attack • Four Dreams • Song • Poem for the Sufferer • Four Accidents • Poem Ending with a Dilapidated Fence • Oracle • Four Flights • A Simple Mirror • My Other Friend • Four Deaths • Notes from a Tuesday Traffic Jam • Four Mothers • The World Without Me • I Pass You on the Street • Four Threads • Beneath the City • Kankakee • Four Moons • Strange Craft • Chamber • Four Horses • Memory • The Book of Paradise • Four Furies • Acknowledgments