Natural trouble

Natural Trouble continues Scott Hightower's investigation begun in Tin Can Tourist . Themes of inheritance extend through changes of landscape and bad weather to hungers, urgencies, inequities, and bereavements. Hightower also reminds us that the practice of writing is at the core of democracy: poetry seeks a foundation in the truth of the individual, guaranteed and restored through the integrity of language.

Andean Serenade at Santiago de Compostela -- Peas Porridge in the Pot -- Five Weather the Storm -- Weather in Richard Long's Sculpture -- Take It Away -- Tontine -- '52 Maneuvers -- Village Cena -- Caravaggio Moderno -- St. Jerome and the Angel -- Natural Trouble -- Trouble Opening the Record -- Mysterious Real Estate -- Carriage -- The Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch -- Rattle of Bones -- Swan Eaters -- American Cooking -- Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin -- Bravado Farce -- Amazing Grace -- Spring Shearing -- In Visiting Hours -- Fortune-Telling -- Rhythm an Blues: Rings and Burls -- Festival -- With an Instinctive Certainty of the Charms of the Modish, "For the Fairest" -- Currency at the "Common Ground" -- Yasumasa Morimura as Frida Kahlo -- John Kelly as Dagmar Onassis as Joni Mitchell -- Off the Hook -- Fortune Three -- Dim Sum in Philadelphia -- Four Saints in Three Acts: The Company of Mark Morris -- Salgado's Two Men in a Sauna -- April 11, 1861, Arrowhead -- Dignity at "Trumpets" -- Traveler -- En la Fuente de las conchas, en el Paseo del Prado, Madrid -- Tartessos -- The Garum Pits of Baelo -- Cusp and Tether -- Tacking -- Cathedral Plaza.