Kathleen McGookey: Kathleen McGookey has published two books of poems, two chapbooks, and We’ll See, a book of translations of French poet Georges Godeau’s prose poems.  She has received grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Table of ContentsDear Death 7 Mended II 8 Folk Tale 9Thank You for Your Question 10This Was My Real Life 11 Like Stars 12Reasons I Might Understand 13Death, Yesterday 14Hippopotamus Hide Box 15 Into the Dollhouse 16 The Life Below 17 In My Pink Room 18The Second-Hand Star 19 Death, Let’s Find 20 At the School Costume Parade 21 Monkey Island 22Tornado Machine 23Windfall 24 In My River 25 Possum Skull in the Field 26 Pain Lake 27 Death, Now Where’s the Skinny Stray 28Dr. Holtgrieve, DDS 29Another Kind of Pain 30 The Grief Jacket Project 31Corrections 32Private 33Death, Vary Your Question 34 At the Football Game 35 Like His Heart in a Jar 36 When My Son Goes to Middle School, I Read Audubon 37Pull Up Your Red Pickup 38Homesickness 39 Good Reason 40Postcard from a Little Boat 41 Once 42The Zoo in Winter 43At the Dance Lesson 44 The Day After a Girl Sprouted in the Flowerbed 45 Fairy Tale 46 The Day’s Catch 47It’s March, Death 48Under the Red Umbrella 49Illness in October 50Sleeping Bear 51On the Day of the Dead 52 Reverence for Life Service 53 Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Emotions 54Take this Scrap of My Words, 55 Passage 56 Lighthouse Tour, South Manitou Island 57To Clarify: 58 Today, On Norris Road 59 At the John Ball Zoo 60 At the Zoo, Again 61 The Long Silence 62 P.S., Death 63 Apology to My Son 64 ?