The second O of sorrow: poems

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"Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt."--Back cover. Why bother? -- The second O of sorrow -- What do you say to a daughter who suspects her mother is dying? -- My grief grows a white flower -- After surgery -- In the light of one lamp -- The bravery of birds -- Scribbled on the scaffolding of -- We a new ledger -- Poem written with a cough -- We pay the rent we breathe -- Grief -- Triptych of desire and the duende -- Red dirt -- In the absence of others I wanted something brave -- Tamir Rice -- Tattoos -- Parade Street -- Youngstown monologue : captured light stained glass -- You're good at going under -- Far from any classroom -- Karaoke night at the Y Not Bar, Carnegie, PA -- Pittsburgh -- Psalm of the working poor -- Toledo, Ohio 1977 -- In the midnight waking -- Leaking light -- My youngest daughter brings me daisies and bits of plastic trash -- Biography of LeBron as Ohio -- Poem made of East Sides -- Elegy on the side of a milk carton -- Eating sea roses in the afterlife -- Down the line -- Our love as a lead belly or -- You are beautiful as the absence of the air -- Rain, gas, Boone County, West Virginia -- Gertrude Stein Lighthouse sonnet -- DJ Jehovah -- Something lovely as the rain -- Grief's familiar rooms.