In praise of wilderness : poems / Shane Carreon

Light -- The first boy -- Isabel -- Milk -- America -- Hurricane -- Kinilaw -- Babel -- A filipinx stands by the river where once a white army camped to join the expedition against the Iroquis Indians -- Sunday -- Variations -- (1) -- Laughing without sound -- The predator pretends to be prey -- All the hopeless lovers -- Eel -- Rituals -- There is no miracle -- Mater dolorosa -- Reunion -- Watching in the dark -- Scene -- Finding the word for what you cannot hear -- Gently, that summer -- In the well-lighted places you dark gods are kept -- Fault -- On a couch in a lifeline room -- The beloved -- Body -- Body 2 -- Love poem 2 -- We chose not to see the fireworks -- Listening to the color gray at the end of winter in february -- A sleeper train from Chiang Mai -- After hearing grandmother -- What doesn't matter -- Visita iglesia -- Knock on wood -- In praise of wilderness -- Afternoons grandfather chops firewood -- Gratitude -- Praising the wilderness -- Acknowledgements -- About the author.