Aquifers of Love is the first volume of poetry of a companion set. The second volume is titled The Time Signature of Night . The poems in both books reflect the themes of the titles. The phrase “Aquifers of Love” expresses that there are countless places all around us where love can be found, both in the human experience and in nature. Table of Contents of Aquifers of Love Aquifers of Love Eclipse Tranquility Seems to Beckon Eyes There’s a Dream in My Bed The Intelligence of Children I Cried When We Took Our Old TV to Goodwill God On the Pillow Sun-Flecked Drive The Death of a Mouse The History of Real Estate Prior to the Cold River Plunge Fully Clothed Santa Cruz 1973 Tree Gal Ephemerons Pirate’s Breakfast Loving Everybody The Little Ones After the Farm Like a Clamshell You Can Hear the Ocean Forgiveness Great Uncle Tony My Mom the Bird Lady Whale Rider Your Large Soft Eye My Monster My Terrible Toes Someday I’d Like to Be Small The Mystery of Matter Love Is the Densest Bone Confession Going in Peace Full Moon Cat The Rooster All You Can Eat Roadside Buffet Breakfast Ode to Garlic The Last Egg Water Palm Sunday Little Chirping Songbird Driving a Truck Starving Artist on Kinnikkinnick Does the Earth Purr When It Rains? If Bees Pollinate in the Key of C A Glass of Cardinal Song Vegetable Spa Buzzards’ Breakfast The Gnat and I Lead Her Off the Bench My Office Is a Baked Potato Sometimes I Forget My Sense of Humor The Day After I Didn’t Kill Myself The Second Day After I Didn’t Kill Myself Emergence The Storage Cellar Call My Me! What Is My Weather? I Didn’t Get the Deluxe Set Mining for God Some Women Are . . . Talking with God in My Pajamas Make Love the Bubble in My Level Tiny Boy in July Hologram Dream Six-Week-Old Boy Mammals’ Motherhood Kids On the Lawn Kitchen Billiards Marriage Like Apollo 13 Spooky Action The Secret of Sleep Then the Thumping Starts Sweet Sorrel Summer Cancan Strange Beauty Impromptu Dissection Stoplight Emotional Yogurt The Last Morsel The Fifth Valve The Green Wheel I Don’t Want to Miss a Moment Song of Seeds and Dirt Bug City The Scent of a Ladybug Medevac Bee Ground of Being I Tell It to the Gods The Last Straw Prayer Is a Convertible The Fear Before Knocking I Don’t Want to Be Smote! Why Must I Be Emotional? The Attack of Raptors Our Dumb Adult Tea Party David and His Grandmother Atonal City La La Land What Really Happened? Black Box The Forensics of Violence Gathering Storm Gored by the Bull of Love Multitudinous Fray October Day Can a Month Be Grumpy? The Sugar Maple The Pen and Ink Sky Night Prayer Crows Black Lucy Dreams of a Fruit Fly Raccoon Interrupted The Sorghum Cows Whistler’s Mother Love Is a Strange Address Soul Resonance The Makeover Menopause Transmogrified Cleaning Beginnings Without Fizzle Self Portrait Shelter Mrs. Lot Look Both Ways The Old Black Dogs Antenna Gut A Voyage Ancestral Spirals Rain Dance The Best Moment Newspapers 2 A.M. The CEO A Small Insult Current Events I Am One of Them Even at the Call Center The Mention of Your Name Broke Overdrawn Monster Machine Fishing for Poems Have Mercy Outposts of Love A Shamrock in the Snow for My Brother Tymon Is Born Beer and Pizza and a Hug Goob Fen and Iris At the Hour of Our Death, Amen Thank You for the Mysteries The Eternal Now My Will Wagging