Zoo at Night

Susan Gubernat is a professor of English at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of Flesh, winner of the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Analog House. An opera librettist, her major work, Korczak’s Orphans, in collaboration with composer Adam Silverman, has been performed in a number of venues. She lives in Oakland, California.

Acknowledgments

I
Etruscans
Wedding Cookies
The Right Hand of Goltzius
I Was in Gym Class When Cronkite Said They’d Shot Him
Sharing a Birthday with Mata Hari
Atlantic City
Smart Enough
The Roosevelt
Christmas Fires
Winter Coats
After the Abortion
Shaggy Parasol

II
Analog House: A Cabinet of Curiosities
The Singer
Easter Bread
Hades
Doberman
Meat Grinder
Piano Bench
13th Fairy
Washboard
Clothesline
Feather Duster
Spirit Level
Paint-by-Number
Net
Netting
Hats, Purses, Gloves
Vestibule
Deliberate Happiness
Photo on Pony
Underwood in Flames

III
The Zoo at Night (1)
Aphasia of the Moon
Sick Child
Filia
Poster Children
La Sebastiana
Portrait at Fourteen
Ground Time
No Warrior
The Collective
Deathbed Proof
Day Lilies

IV
The Zoo at Night (2)
The Entrance of Beauty
Yellow Sweater
Too Soon
On a Scale Of
Fonder
My Sister and I Are Having the Same Dream
Reading Loop: The Sibyl at Cumae
Mating Dance
Prey
Eclipse
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Our Road

V
“Report a Problem with This Poem”
“Beautiful Contrivances” in the Sex Life of Orchids
Fumée d’Ambre Gris
The Fascicles of Emily Dickinson
My Mother in the Eye of the Storm
Blue Tooth
Ground Note
Near Capitol Reef, Utah
Pears in Winter

Notes