Incarnadine : poems / Mary Szybist.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-68).

The Troubadours Etc. -- Annunciation (from the grass beneath them) -- Conversion Figure -- Annunciation in Nabokov and Starr -- Heroine as She Turns to Face Me -- Update on Mary -- Hail -- Annunciation as Fender's Blue Butterfly with Kincaid's Lupine -- Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle -- Invitation -- Entrances and Exits -- It Is Pretty to Think -- Long after the Desert and Donkey -- To Gabriela at the Donkey Sanctuary -- Notes on a 39-Year-Old Body -- Annunciation under Erasure -- Close Reading -- So-and-So Descending from the Bridge -- I Send News: She Has Survived the Tumor after All -- Another True Story -- Annunciation in Byrd and Bush -- On a Spring Day in Baltimore, the Art Teacher Asks the Class to Draw Flowers -- Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc -- To the Dove within the Stone -- Holy -- How (Not) to Speak of God -- Yet Not Consumed -- On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes -- Annunciation in Play -- Too Many Pigeons to Count and One Dove -- The Cathars Etc. -- To You Again -- Annunciation: Eve to Ave -- Annunciation Overheard from the Kitchen -- Night Shifts at the Group Home -- Happy Ideas -- Annunciation as Right Whale with Kelp Gulls -- Here, There Are Blueberries -- Do Not Desire Me, Imagine Me -- Insertion of Meadow with Flowers -- Knocking or Nothing -- The Lushness of It.