Thought That Nature

by Trey Moody, Cole Swensen (Introduction)

Overview

In the middle of the night, when the fruit
is scariest. I hold my hand out

and feel your nibbling. Don't worry,
my eyes are still closed. I've only

peeked that once. The cold
that is your breath—these windows

of fog. If I were outside,
I'd read your name backward again and again.

Trey Moody is from San Antonio, Texas. He earned an MFA from Texas State Universityand a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of the chapbook How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware, and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936747672
Publisher:	Sarabande Books
Publication date:	01/07/2014
Series:	Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry Series
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Trey Moody is from San Antonio, earned an MFA from Texas State University, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently, How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Washington Square.

Table of Contents

1

We Use Spoons Mostly
What We First Said
Climate Reply
A Weather [Why a. Why not…]
The Fallacy of Perfection
A Weather [Snow falls thick…]
Like Hearing For from That
Chatter
A Weather [Land absorbs sound…]
This Forest Isn’t a Room
A Feather Protruding from the Mouth
A Weather [While waiting…]
The Seating
A Weather [Said sand molds…]
Salina, Kansas
A Weather [Summer’s scalding echo…]
Dear Ghosts,

2: Lancaster County Notebook

The Good Life
Travelogue
To, But
Attention
In Crossing
By Hand
Act of Interpretation
Only What
Spring
Between Both
Nourishment
Distance
An Explanation
That Abstraction
Perfect Potential

3

Same-Day Resolution
A Weather [Since it is raining…]
Both
Everything Is Not for Everyone
A Weather [A certain sound…]
Yes, This Is May
A Weather [Heat: winter’s memory…]
Exercise in Patience
Backyard
A Weather [Color claims consistency…]
A Note on Silence
This Hemisphere of Leaves
A Weather
Praise
A Weather
Remembering the Original
Dear—