FIELD CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND POETICS NUMBER 97 FAEL 2017 OBERLIN COLLEGE PRESS EDITORS David Young David Walker ASSOCIATE Pamela Alexander EDITORS Kazim Ali DeSales Harrison Lynn Powell EDITOR-AT- Martha Collins LARGE MANAGING Marco Wilkinson EDITOR EDITORIAL Allison Fulton ASSISTANT Juliet Wayne DESIGN Steve Farkas www.oberlin.edu/ocpress Published twice yearly by Oberlin College. Poems should be submitted through the online submissions manager on our website. Subscription orders should be sent to FIELD, Oberlin College Press, 50 N. Professor St., Oberlin, OH 44074. Checks payable to Oberlin College Press: $16.00 a year / $28.00 for two years/ $40.00 for three years. Single issues $8.00 postpaid. Please add $4.00 per year for Canadian addresses and $9.00 for all other countries. Back issues $12.00 each. Contact us about availability. FIELD is indexed in Humanities International Complete. Copyright © 2017 by Oberlin College. ISSN: 0015-0657 CONTENTS 7 Nancy Willard: A Symposium Lee Upton 11 We Heard a Fly Buzz When We Died Cynthia Hogue 16 The Trees of a Life Dore Kiesselbach 21 Eating Stars Martha Collins 25 Gold Sarah Green 28 Who Is the Stream? Dennis Schmitz 33 Two Garden Poems * * * Kevin Prufer 39 Blueberry Charity Gingerich 43 Somewhere in September; Eric Pankey 44 Honeymoon at the Pine Crest Motor Hotel and Cabins 45 The Arrival Mary Ann Samyn 46 The Sky at Home 47 Unto Himself Sam Ross 48 Attendant 49 Pro Tern Wayne Miller 50 Two Sisters 51 After the Miscarriage Kathy Goodkin 52 Moving Day Brandon Krieg 53 Coat 54 Reed Peter Huchel 55 Huber tsiveg translated by Martyn Crucefix Jason Mastaler 57 Fourth of July, McMurdo Station, Antarctica Jennifer Atkinson 58 Star Calendar Timothy O'Keefe 60 Quadrilateral: Linkboy 61 Quadrilateral: Nebula 62 Quadrilateral: Reliction Betsy Sholl 63 Philomela John Lazear Okrent 64 The Trouble with Describing the Winter Sky Dore Kiesselbach 66 Disappearance Kathleen McGookey 67 Star-Crossed Kirsten Abel 68 Canal Street 69 Harbor Island Elton Glaser 70 Ghost Variations 72 Mercury in the Tall Degrees Claudia Serea 73 The man playing with matches 74 In those years, no one slept Doug Ramspeck 75 Chicago Analicia Sotelo 76 Ariadne at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 10 am 77 Theseus at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 6 am Cynthia Hogue 78 Wing 79 Bees Michael Teig 80 was several cubicles we've kept our hearts in 81 And This Must Occur Many Times Ralph Burns 82 The Parts of a Window 83 I Think I See My Father Bern Mulvey 84 Found One Morning on the Way to Work David Hernandez 85 Made in California Emily Skaja 88 Girl Saints Christopher Hozuell 90 Her Sticky Name 91 Historical Perspective Nancy Eimers 92 Photo of 50 Mannequins Posed in Front of the County Court House in Las Vegas, Nevada, Before the 1953 "Atomic Annie" Nuclear Test 93 Photo of Unnumbered Mannequins Piled in Front of the Country Court House in Las Vegas, Nevada, After the 1953 "Atomic Annie" Nuclear Test Karen Rigby 94 To Marion Cotillard on Her 2008 Oscar Dress Angie Estes 95 Lieu de Living Memoire 97 Contributors NANCY WILLARD A FIELD SYMPOSIUM