Laughter Before Sleep
- Contents
- Review Quotes

I Seasons
Late Mountain Spring
Alive
Now Once Again
Wondering
Clouds
Warm Air
Only the Evergreen
Late Light
Bird Feeder
Helpless
Cheerleaders
Among the Constellations
Indian Summer
Seasons
November
II Cherishing
Grandpa
Kosher Bacon for Aunt Pearl
Hands
Power
Woodpecker Reprise
Woolly Mammoth
Socrates’s Last Words
Washington
The Covenant of Sigmund Freud
Only One
Cherishing
Encounter
Loon Call Cantata
Naming Mountain Wildflowers
Bubbie
III Lamenting
Melancholy
Pain
Evacuation
Humankind
Inheritance
Blindness
Junerose
Obsolete
Tehran
Enemy
Transfigured
Falling and Rising
At Number Seven
Stories
Sonnetelle of the Dark
IV Laughter
Showing Off in Blue
A Toast
Parenting Penguins
Skunk Family
Accident in Red
Anticipating Paradise
Tickling
Worms
Jasper
Panegyric for Charles Darwin’s Nose
Worrying
Exchanging Names
An Elephant by Aristotle
Identity
Glockenspiel3
V Epilogue
Genie
“A primary joy in Robert Pack’s Laughter Before Sleep is the breath and space into which he floats his ideas. . . . There is a seamless action and reaction as the poet not only presents the changes in nature but reveals the changes in himself.”
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