Rung by Rung

Mike Good’s poetry has been published in Bennington Review, Ploughshares, Sugar House Review, Radar, Waxwing, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. He previously served as a managing editor at Autumn House Press. He currently works in nonprofit development and freelances as a book reviewer. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, child, and three dogs. Cathryn Hankla is the author of seventeen works of poetry, fiction, and memoir—most recently Immortal Stuff, Not Xanadu, Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home, and, her newest, Return to a Certain Region of Consciousness: New & Selected Poems. She is professor emerita of English and creative writing at Hollins University, Virginia, and a visual artist who exhibits at Market Gallery in Roanoke, Virginia.

• Foreword by Cathryn Hankla | xi1Oil Change | 3Everyone Is Doing Their Best | 5C.W.P. | 6Heavy Fertilization | 9Sweat, Nails, My Father’s Ladder | 10Rung by Rung | 11Combined Sewer Overflow | 12Fishing All Evening at Raccoon Creek Park After the Rain | 14Changing the Rear Brakes, I Watch My Death Approach | 152The Weight | 19Six Morels Growing Under a Guardrail | 20Fishing All Afternoon at Canonsburg Lake, and It Is Hot | 22Obstructive Sleep Apnea | 23D++ Dek Hockey League Champions (2012) | 24Dental Anthropology | 26The Things I Did in Daleville | 29Steel and Glass in Margaritaville | 30Field Guide to Sycamore Island, Blawnox, PA | 31The Hour of the Cockerel | 33Glaciation | 34Eight Morels Growing from a Heap of Gravel | 35The Robins | 363The Current | 394Bargain Matinee | 57Shooting Sparrows | 58After Althea Drive | 60Unenlightenment | 62Bright Blue Muscle Car | 63After the Fight, Having Married Late | 64Poem for My Niece on the Day She Was Born | 65Comeback Story | 66There is a certain quiet in Maine . . . | 68A Plume | 69Apple of Gold | 73Fishing All Morning at Montour Run, Freezing | 74Notes | 77Acknowledgments | 79Gratitude | 81