Miles, Christopher Lee, authorUniversity of Alaska Press, publisher2022-04-252022-04-252019https://hdl.handle.net/10217/234844Is 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.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.American poetry -- 21st centuryTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.