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The article discusses how learning the name for something can resemble care. Topics include how aster was the word used in English to refer to stars, how a British tea merchant from India named Cadogan Best, who finds Chinese name too difficult to say, and asterisk, which also comes from the word aster, has an effect like starlight.

The poem "The Seeds" by Cecily Parks is presented. First Line: The mouth closes around a word full of O. Last Line: are not.

A poem "PANDEMIC PARABLE" by Cecily Parks, is presented. First Line: I'll check on the flowers, the mother says to no one as she leaves the; Last Line: Her daughter said, My, face.

A poem "On Fire" by Cecily Parks, is presented. First Line: It's May and I'm trying to think if I've ever seen the firewheels so thick; Last Line: they found the body ot a dead woman, naked, iii Ute tivei.

The poem "Harvest" by Cecily Parks is presented. First Line: The grackles plummet down to pierce the lawn; Last Line: hands and gnaw.

after some lines of Calvino It must have been under a hurrying sky like that, on slopes cropped by goats, that the first human marriage took place. Many stances are [...]

A poem "BURNING CREEK" by Cecily Parks, is presented. First Line: In this version, Last Line: You're in such a rush.

Presents the poem "Agnes Chase's Second Book of Grasses," by Cecily Parks. First Line: The grass will not show itself; Last Line: to be good.

The poem "December" is presented. First Line: It was never supposed to snow; Last Line: old story-poem!" and felt a happy.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of visiting the glass gardens of Dale Chihuly at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and that of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Massachusetts.

The poem “Texas Natives" by Cecily Parks is presented. First Line: Apache Plum; Last Line: Zitherwood.

The poem "Girlhood" by Cecily Parks is presented. First Line: was when I slept in the woods; Last Line: heartbreaks of the field.

Presents the poem "Sentinel," by Cecily Parks. First Line: An indigo ex-goddess; Last Line: I whisper. I am the loudest animal here.

Presents the poem "Pink Salmon," by Cecily Parks.

Presents the poem "Cecily Maker," by Cecily Parks.

The poem "Bell," by Cecily Parks is presented. First Line: This newness of snow. This boost-ringing; Last Line: & becoming the air in the belfry.

The poem "Bell," by Cecily Parks is presented. First Line: Here a wilderness of wild turkeys; Last Line: be a wilder animal.

The article presents the poem "Jugarum," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Vagrant angel of convalescence, our sedulous; Last Line: Scanning the bank for something to cut.

The article presents the poem "Folly," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Along the highway there's a place; Last Line: even yours, seems buffeted and slight.

Presents the prose poem "Letter to the Horsebreaker," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Movement is the way the horse defines itself. Last Line: Fracture then silence in which tameness fumbles for its syntax.

Presents the poem "Self-Portrait as Seismograph," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Dear Magnitude, I leave the how much; Last Line: of what you did.

The article presents the poem "In Colder Weather," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Here, waking earlier in the barn you painted blue, Last Line: their wondering. I am nearly done with expectation.

The article presents the poem "How to Read a Mackerel Sky," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Out of the clouds I make; Last Line: hear hoofbeats, love approaching.

The article presents the poem "The Fern Seed," by Cecily Parks.

Presents the poem "Miss Peecher's Rivers," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Pincushion, gingham, pins. A pocket case; Last Line: It is as a gown, she thinks, one cuts and enters.

Presents the poem "A Blessing for Stocked Fish," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Scale on scale, the six of you cluster and squirm. Last Line: water, you must begin by vanishing.

Presents the poem "Vessel," by Cecily Parks. First Line: Little canoe, you; Last Line: who knows how this will end.

Presents the poem "Self-Portrait as Angler's Damselfly," by Cecily Parks. First Line: It takes a certain type to be devoured; Last Line: hunger, which is not far from expectation.

Presents the poem 'Chevron and Swoop.'