Morning in the Burned House

A Collection Of Intimate Reflections On Such Diverse Subjects As Classical History, Popular Mythology, Love, And The Fragility Of Nature. You Come Back -- Sad Child -- In The Secular Night -- Waiting -- February -- Asparagus -- Red Fox -- Miss July Grows Older -- Manet's Olympia -- Daphne And Laura And So Forth -- Cressida To Troilus: A Gift -- Ava Gardner Reincarnated As A Magnolia -- Helen Of Troy Does Counter Dancing -- Man Looks -- Sekhmet, The Lion-headed Goddess Of War, Violent Storms, Pestilence, And Recovery From Illness, Contemplates The Desert In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art -- Romantic -- Cell -- Loneliness Of The Military Historian -- Marsh Languages -- Frogless -- Half-hanged Mary -- Owl Burning -- Down -- Pink Hotel In California -- Man In A Glacier -- Wave -- King Lear In Respite Care -- Visit -- Dancing -- Bored -- Flowers -- Two Dreams -- Time -- Two Dream, 2 -- Oh -- Ottawa River By Night -- Vermilion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona -- Moment -- Up -- Girl Without Hands -- Signer -- Fire Place -- Statuary -- Shapechangers In Winter -- Morning In The Burned House. Margaret Atwood. Poems. Originally Published: Toronto : Mcclelland & Stewart, C1995.