Armor & ornament - Miles, Christopher Lee, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019)
Is This Not a Strange Life to Which I Call You -- A Flaming Sword -- The Storm on the Lake -- Holy Water in a Dry-House -- The Dynamited Mass -- Cain the Earthmover -- To Rain -- My Scallop-Shell of Quiet -- The Burden of the Valley of Vision -- Burn Pit -- The House of the Forest -- A Procession in the Cave -- The Spell of the Covenant -- Holy Convocations -- Scandalized People, Meaning All of Us -- The Riches of Darkness -- To Serve Those Who Do Not Serve -- Bell-Sound -- The Thin Harvest -- Sworn to Secrecy the Morning He Performed the Sacrament -- Apron of Leaves -- The Supernumerary Persons Being Enrichers of His Inheritance -- Holy Convocations -- The Exasperated Spirit -- Spun Wisdom -- The Blood Forsakes My Face -- The Stench of Cursed Ground -- Holy Convocations -- Our Days All Pass Awaiting Its Return -- He Houghed Their Horses, and Burnt Their Chariots with Fire -- They Held to Sanity So Hard They Were Insane -- The Burden of the Valley of Vision -- The Morning Light -- Dawn's Careful Seal -- Air Craft -- Bodies into Hills, Hills into Homes -- Thinking Is Weeping Entering Eternity -- On Ester Mountain -- An Orgy of Absence -- To Take Corporeal Shape -- The Morning Light -- Dining at the Core of an Old Silence -- The Soul's Chiasmus -- A Crown of Thistles -- A Detail of Devotion -- A Cipher for the Symbol of Zero -- Choke the Word -- Under What Shadow -- The Grooves along Which the Cranes Glide -- Ornamental Armor -- Armor & Ornament -- The Armor of Light.
Keywords: American poetry -- 21st century