Where the Sky Opens: A Partial Cosmography
By Laurie Klein
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Laurie Klein
Laurie Brendemuehl Klein is the author of the prize-winning chapbook Bodies of Water, Bodies of Flesh and the classic praise chorus "I Love You, Lord." Her poems and prose have appeared in many publications, including Ascent, The Southern Review, Atlanta Review, Terrain, and the Holman Personal Worship Bible. She is a recipient of the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred. Connect with her on Facebook and at www.lauriekleinscribe.com.
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Where the Sky Opens - Laurie Klein
Where the Sky Opens
A Partial Cosmography
LAURIE KLEIN
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A Partial Cosmography
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Preface
How to Live Like a Backyard Psalmist
I. Portals
A Lone Bird, Balanced
Exposed
She Can Only Try to Compose Herself
She Calls Him Dreamer
Next Breath, Best Breath
Blue as Devotion
Jealous
Warning
Darkness Muscles between Us
De Profundis
Tethers
Crash
Burial at Sea
II. Rhapsodies and Blues
Instrumental
Right Brain Blues
Ghost Stroke
Unbelief
Path Minder
Some Instructions on Bending
Washed Up
En Route
Here on Earth
Ms Demeanor
Pipe Dream
In Defense of the Occasional Gale
In Thailand the Air Didn’t Move
The Back Forty
III. Everyday Incarnations
Wayward
Taffy and Cold Feet
Delicate Arch
Far and Away
Bear
Hunger’s Plate of Secrets: Act I
Reading Alone at Night
Storm Toads: an Oracle
Earthworks 301
Beloved Raptor
Where the Sky Opens
Jonah’s Whale Addresses the Almighty
IV. Tree, Temple, Wing
Lauds in a Pocket
Re: Union
I Try to Forgive Your Absence, Facing the Snake in the Kitchen
Yes
Sunday Shoes
Love and Apostasy
Picasso Might Have Seen It Like This
In the Hothouse
Suicide Trees
Return Engagement
Long Memories
Catching Fire: Notes to a Raku Vase
V. Segue
Conclusions
Hunger’s Plate of Secrets: Act II
Strung Out
Every hurt place she begins to name
Every Longing Implies a Beyond
Altar
Beginnings
St. Kevin’s Blackbird
Migrations
Bedrock
Psalm 727
Afterward
Procrastination
Roaming Charges
Notes
Acknowledgments
In her debut collection Where the Sky Opens: A Partial Cosmography, Klein invites us, her journey mates,
to encounter a world more beautiful, complex and fragile than we often expect at the beginning of our faith histories. From the natural wonder of toads and lichens and mountain trails to the wild, savory, perilous, graced
marriage relationship, these poems illuminate a sensitivity to life’s lights and shadows through some of