Nothing but the Blood

LAURA APOL is Associate Professor of Education at Michigan State University. She is the author of several collections of poems including Falling into Grace; Crossing the Ladder of Sun; Requiem, Rwanda; Celestial Bodies; and With a Gift for Burning.

2018 Independent Publisher Book Award — 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award 2019 Oklahoma Book Award — 2019 Oklahoma Book Award 2019 Lansing, Michigan, Poet Laureate — 2019 Lansing, Michigan, Poet Laureate

• Contents On Divine Highway Horoscope Mid-Life Writing the Body The Piano Briars Weeding the Garden with John Calvin Sabbath And then, the Fall Genealogy Colonial History Mother, Smoking Suppose Birthright Midwinter, My Mother Easter Sunday On My Fiftieth Birthday, I Return Motherline Of the Body On Dreams February 29th Sending My Son to College Errant Afterbirth A Photo The Fire Second Sight November Rains Surrender Daughter Leaving Home In the Vineyards of Teramo Blood Moon Caught Takotsubo First Peach after the Truth Burning the Old Year Seven Months On Scattering Ashes at Land’s End Pardon To the Lighthouse The Gift of Yes Roots Five Prayers to Be Said upon Departure Light, Water, Bones On Divine Highway II Notes Acknowledgments