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    The Sky’s Larger Frame
    The Sky’s Larger Frame
    The Sky’s Larger Frame
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    The Sky’s Larger Frame

    By Randall Compton

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    This three-part volume sounds out a cycle that delights in creation, despairs over evil, and longs for restoration. Tracing life's dualities, these poems press together faith and uncertainty, love and loss, dream and waking, depression and exuberance. Locating humanity between the immense and the slight, The Sky's Larger Frame explores the world as a construction site in which God both reveals and conceals the scaffolds of his presence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJul 1, 2019
    ISBN9781532682339
    The Sky’s Larger Frame
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    Randall Compton

    Randall Compton lives in Longview, Texas, where he teaches writing and literature at LeTourneau University. His work has appeared in Southwestern American Literature, Concho River Review, and St. Katherine’s Review, as well as other journals.

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      The Sky’s Larger Frame

      Copyright © 2019 Randall Compton. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      W.

      8

      th Ave., Suite

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      paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-8231-5

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-5326-8232-2

      ebook isbn: 978-1-5326-8233-9

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      August 12, 2019

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgments

      I.

      Meditation in Texas Hill Country

      Ambitions

      Looking for Fossils in the Sulphur River

      Grandfathers, 1970

      Felling Bois d‘Arc

      Losing Bois d‘Arc Creek

      Day on Little Pigeon

      Picnic near a Winter Wheat Field

      Red Oak Leaves, April Morning

      After Ten Years

      Morning Spider

      Google Me

      Hinges of Hell

      Stories I Tell Myself

      Midnight Pantoum, Galveston Beach

      Dreams, Then Waking

      Lines for Breakfast

      Sun Room, October Morning

      Rereading Old Books

      Preparing for Winter

      Talking to Myself on My Fortieth Birthday

      Interglacial

      II.

      Another Statement on Babel

      Monster Minds

      Subterranean Music

      Logbook

      The Seafarer: A Late Interpolation

      Hard of Hearing

      Morning, Noon, and Night

      Haunts

      Manuscripts in Hell

      Yet Another Ars Poetica

      Reading an Old Novel during a Thunderstorm

      God the Magician

      Sermon Notes

      All My Small Designs

      Elijah, after Ravens

      Peak and Trough

      Lament and Reply

      Waiting for Amnesia

      Rain Walk

      Advice to Someone Like Me

      Inner Ring

      After an Ice Storm

      Lost Prerogative

      Viva

      After Twenty Years

      III.

      Berth

      Waking before Alarm Clock

      New Year’s Day

      General Revelation

      God the Alchemist

      Church Picnic

      John VI, 53 ff

      Meditation on a Theme from Heraclitus

      Homily on Sorrow and Joy

      Silver Anniversary

      Envelope

      Down the Guadalupe

      Nothing for Now

      Older Couple, Living in East Texas

      Awaiting Another Sunset

      Talking to a Red-tailed Hawk at Sunset

      For Mary

      Believing is seeing.

      Acknowledgments

      I am grateful to the editors of the following publications, in which some of these poems (a few with changes) first appeared:

      5–2 Crime Quarterly: Sermon Notes

      CCTE Studies: Logbook, Berth, Meditation on a Theme from Heraclitus, Picnic Near a Winter Wheat Field, Older Couple, Living in East Texas, Waiting for Another Sunset, Rain Walk, After an Ice Storm, Google Me, Advice to Someone Like Me, Waiting for Amnesia, Lines for Breakfast, Manuscripts in Hell

      Concho River

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