What have you lost?

What have you lost A friend A brother A wallet A memory A meaning A year

Each Night

Images,

dream news,

fragments,

flash

then fade.

These darkened walls.

Here, I say.

Climb into

this story.

Be remembered!

Jay Bremyer

00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council, 2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA), 00 Riverbank Review Magazine's Children's Books of Distinction Award Nominations, Winner 2000 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and 01 Riverbank Review Magazine's Children's Books of Distinction Award Nominations

• Introduction p. xi
• Dedication p. xiv Jim Natal
• What the Stones Know p. 1 Robert Dana
• Years of Solitude p. 2 Dionisio D. Martinez
• Orange Juice p. 3 Lisa Ruth Shulman
• The Wren p. 4 Barbara McCauley
• My Father's Coat p. 5 Susie Mee
• David p. 6 William I. Elliott
• My Father in the Stacks p. 7 David Hassler
• Battleground State Park p. 8 Martha Christina
• Nine p. 10 Amy Adams
• Emergency Situation p. 12 Hal Sirowitz
• The Ants Are Using Sticks for Walls p. 13 Sandra Gail Teichmann
• The Changeling p. 14 Siv Cedering
• The Father, Who Could Not Swim p. 16 Bill Meissner
• Son, Skating p. 17 Judith Kitchen
• The New Blade p. 18 Anzai Hitoshi
• Teenagers p. 19 Pat Mora
• Devotion p. 20 Chris Pealer
• Custody p. 21 Jan Bailey
• Mother's Day p. 22 Daisy Zamora
• Waking Instructions p. 23 Emma Mellon
• Simple Song of Being Oneself p. 24 Vittorio Bodini
• I Myself p. 25 Angel Gonzalez
• And sometimes i hear this song in my head p. 26 Harriet Jacobs
• Shedding Skin p. 28 Harryette Mullen
• Song of the Prodigal Son p. 29 Heberto Padilla
• Aqueducts p. 30 Brittney Corrigan
• Invisibility p. 32 Renato Rosaldo
• Breath p. 33 David Williams
• Almost Evenly Divided p. 34 Emma Suarez-Baez
• At Home p. 35 Linda Gregg
• Child Proof p. 36 Lisa Brandenburg
• Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten p. 37 William Trowbridge
• Bittersweet p. 38 Lavonne J. Adams
• First Grade p. 40 Roger Jones
• The New World p. 42 Sandra Larson
• The Forest of My Hair p. 43 James Tolan
• Returning to the West: Mountain Legend p. 44 Denise Overfield
• Drifter, Owl, Mouse p. 45 Ken Fontenot
• Kind p. 46 Leonard Nathan
• Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule p. 47 Philip Appleman
• That Was the Summer We Had Animals p. 48 Jack Ridl
• Lens p. 49 Kimberly J. Brown
• Sudden p. 52 Nick Flynn
• Organdy Curtains, Window, South Bank of the Ohio p. 53 James Baker Hall
• On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know p. 54 Jennifer Weinblatt
• What Grandma Taught Her p. 56 Melissa A. Stephenson
• Seeing for You p. 57 Linda Allardt
• Leaving the Light On p. 58 Jack Myers
• What We Want p. 59 Maggie Anderson
• What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute p. 60 June Jordan
• Silence p. 61 Peter Sears
• What Gets Lost/Lo Que Se Pierde p. 62 Alastair Reid
• Naming p. 64 Nancy Mairs
• The Higher Reaches p. 65 Bruce Bennett
• Here yet be dragons p. 66 Lucille Clifton
• Learning Persian p. 67 Reza Shirazi
• Driving p. 68 Haas H. Mroue
• The Sparrow and the Crumb p. 69 Nathan Spoon
• Other Lives p. 70 Vern Rutsala
• Hitchhiker p. 72 Jimmy Santiago Baca
• The Family Car p. 73 Tom Absher
• "I never saw the road between our ..." p. 74 Donna Lee
• So Far p. 75 Naomi Shihab Nye
• Travelling Light p. 76 Kirsti Simonsuuri
• Legend p. 77 Craig Czury
• Stranded p. 78 Jenny Browne
• Today I'll Sit Still p. 80 Ernesto Trejo
• This Isn't Fair p. 81 Chris Mahon
• "Someone told me you were in love ..." p. 82 Ernesto Cardenal
• Insurance p. 83 Vickie Karp
• "What are friends for, my mother asks..." p. 84 Rosellen Brown
• Going Home p. 85 Ben Judson
• That Kind of Marriage p. 86 John Sangster
• She had thought p. 87 Phebe Davidson
• Divorce p. 88 Jack Gilbert
• My lost father p. 89 Lucille Clifton
• It Was Here-- p. 90 Rolf Jacobsen
• Mindleaving p. 91 Hayan Charara
• Shrink-wrapped p. 92 Carla Hartsfield
• Where on This Earth p. 94 Patricia Kirkpatrick
• Garage Sale p. 96 Brian Andreas
• Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say p. 97 Quintin Prout
• Journey p. 98 Cathy Song
• What Came to Me p. 99 Jane Kenyon
• Benavides, Texas, 1906 p. 100 Marissa C. Martinez
• Letter to an Ancestor p. 101 Dwight Fullingim
• The House at 5 Allende Street p. 102 Hector Carreto
• Barns Collapsing p. 104 John Vernon
• Dream House p. 105 Margo Solod
• Small Town p. 106 Charles Owsley
• What Was Once Reached For p. 108 Jeffrey Shotts
• Father, Herald Me Home p. 109 Teresa Palomo Acosta
• The Lost Glove Is Happy p. 110 Nuala Archer
• A Serenade p. 112 Sekine Hiroshi
• A Game Nobody Won p. 113 Yamanoguchi Baku
• My Grandmother Told Us Jokes p. 114 Richard Beban
• The Mentalist Leaves the Stage p. 116 Memye Curtis Tucker
• Part p. 117 Steve Wilson
• Plum Trees p. 118 Alison Seevak
• Work p. 120 Geoff Rips
• Sister p. 122 Andy Young
• The Question p. 124 Tony Hoagland
• My Valhalla p. 126 Robert Phillips
• The colors of Another Home p. 128 Cyrus Cassells
• Fame p. 129 Nicanor Parra
• Tutu on the Curb p. 130 Eric Chock
• Passing Necessity p. 131 Camille Domangue
• Any Morning p. 132 William Stafford
• Tough Ride p. 133 Mary Ann Wehler
• Unveiling the Vietnam Memorial p. 134 Fran Castan
• Thinking of What the Jury Is Deliberating p. 136 Mick Hatten
• I Give You Back p. 138 Joy Harjo
• Food. Music. Memory p. 140 Susan Marie Scavo
• The Memory Prayer p. 141 John Phillip Santos
• Raised Voices p. 142 Jack Brannon
• Lament p. 144 Catherine Bowman
• Model of the Heart at the Franklin Institute p. 145 Kasey Jueds
• Each Night p. 146 Jay Bremyer
• Waking Up in the Morning p. 147 Zymunt Frankel
• Truth p. 148 Leroy V. Quintana
• Regrets on the Way to an Airport p. 149 Ali Abunimah
• Processes p. 150 Joan Colby
• Ghazal (For William Stafford) p. 152 David Keefe
• Autumn Quince p. 153 Jane Hirshfield
• Cannon Beach p. 154 Susan V. Meyers
• Christmas p. 155 Lan Se
• Avalanche p. 156 David B. Prather
• Year's End p. 158 Ted Kooser
• How Forgetting Works in Late Winter p. 159 Robert Hill Long
• Secret of Life p. 160 Diana Der-Hovanessian
• Tune p. 161 Frances Richard
• Something I Remember p. 162 Linda Elkin
• The Moment for Which There Is No Name p. 163 Morton Marcus
• Letter to Terry Dobson p. 164 Abbot Cutler
• Obituaries p. 166 Eric Zuckerman
• The Black and the Dazzle p. 167 Tom Rea
• Valencia Street p. 168 Robert Funge
• Wilderness Poem p. 169 John Brandi
• Dreaming Them Into the World Again p. 170 Tina Letcher
• Notes on the Contributors p. 172
• Acknowledgments p. 191
• Permissions p. 192
• Index to Losses p. 201
• Index to Poems p. 203
• Index to Poets p. 205