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Space, in Chains

Books by Laura Kasischke

POETRY

Space, in Chains

Lilies Without

Gardening in the Dark

Dance and Disappear

What It Wasn’t

Fire & Flower

Housekeeping in a Dream

Wild Brides

FICTION

Eden Springs

In a Perfect World

Be Mine

The Life before Her Eyes

White Bird in a Blizzard

Suspicious River

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Feathered

Boy Heaven

LAURA KASISCHKE

Space, in Chains

Port Townsend, Washington

Copyright 2011 by Laura Kasischke

All rights reserved

Cover art: Mark Rothko,
Number 8,
1952. © 2010 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Copper Canyon Press is in residence at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington, under the auspices of Centrum. Centrum is a gathering place for artists and creative thinkers from around the world, students of all ages and backgrounds, and audiences seeking extraordinary cultural enrichment.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Kasischke, Laura, 1961–
Space, in chains / Laura Kasischke.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-55659-333-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS3561.A6993S63 2011
811´.54-dc22

2010040037

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 FIRST PRINTING

Copper Canyon Press
Post Office Box 271
Port Townsend, Washington 98368

www.coppercanyonpress.org

for Lucy & Jack

Flying swiftly past,

For a child I last forever,

For adults I’m gone too fast…

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation for a fellowship that supported the completion of this book, as well as United States Artists for a generous USA Cummings Fellowship.

Thank you to the editors of the following publications, in which these poems originally appeared:

The Adirondack Review:
“Stolen shoes”

Boston Review:
“Mercy”

Chautauqua:
“My son makes a gesture my mother used to make”

Conduit:
“Cytoplasm, June”

Dunes Review:
“Dawn,” “Lunch,” “O elegant giant (These difficult matters)”

Field:
“Landscape with one of the earthworm’s ten hearts”

Gulf Coast:
“The key to the tower,” “Your headache”

Harvard Review:
“Abigor”

Hayden’s Ferry Review:
“Space, in chains”

The Iowa Review:
“The call of the one duck flying south,” “Song”

The Kenyon Review:
“At the public pool,” “My beautiful soul”

The Laurel Review:
“Animal, vegetable, mineral, mist”

Luna:
“You”

The Missouri Review:
“My father’s mansion”

Narrative:
“Atoms on loan,” “Life support,” “The photograph album in the junk shop,” “Tools and songs”

New American Writing:
“O elegant giant (And Jehovah)” (Reprinted in
The Pushcart Prize XXXIV)

New England Review:
“Almost there,” “Rain,” “Riddle (I am the mirror),” “Riddle (Most days),” “They say”

New Letters:
“Four Men” “Riddle (Mars, the moon)”

Poetry:
“After Ken Burns,” “Hospital parking lot, April,” “Look”

POOL:
“Recipe for disaster”

Puerto del Sol:
“The Pleasure Center”

Redivider:
“Forgiveness”

Salamander:
“Pharmacy,” “Receipt”

Smartish Pace:
“Dread”

The Southern Review:
“Memory of grief,” “My son practicing the violin,” “Swan logic,” “We watch my father try to put on his shirt”

TriQuarterly:
“Riddle (The bodies of the girls),” “The sweet by-and-by”

Willow Springs:
“Near misses”

When I came in my son said, “Mother, something has come down from Mars and the world is coming to an end.” I said, “Don’t be silly.” Then my husband said, “It is true.”