title: An Open Book (poetry collection)
text: # An Open Book (poetry collection)
  
  An Open Book (2004) is a collection of poems by Orson Scott Card.
  
  ## Contents
  
  I - Hunger, Love, and Death
  
  * Walking on Water
  * Short-Lived Creatures
  * Echo
  * Grain of the Wood
  * Of a Private History
  * This Is the Poem I Made Then
  * I Go Out the Door
  * The Man Who Came Back from the Lunar Colony
  * 5 a.m.
  * Declaration
  * Myrtle Beach
  * Elves
  * Light and Shade
  * Rapunzel Summons the Prince
  * In Touch
  * My Son in Love
  * Barbarians
  * Browning, Cummings, Tennyson
  * To One Not Poisoned Yet
  * To Alice, Recently of Wonderland
  * How Do You Know You Love Me?
  * Lovers Do
  * In Winter I Wrote Love Poems
  * Hands
  * Old House
  * Old Mother
  * Grandfather Is Home from Seattle
  * He Died of Cystic Fibrosis at 24
  * Prayer in the ICU
  * Grandma in the Corner, Dying
  * O Hurried Guest
  * A Poem for Erin's First Christmas
  * Worlds Might Stumble
  * When
  * Of My Beloved Son
  
  II - Apocalyptic Verses
  
  * Tin Men
  * On Another Road
  * If I Hadn't Overturned the Stone
  * Dog and Bear
  * Winter of Wishes
  * Judge
  * One Will Be Taken
  * Broken Kings
  * Hordes
  * Outside the Ark
  * Potion for Immortality
  * From a Spirit to the One Possessed
  * Warning to a Long-Haired Woman
  * Redeemers
  * Fire at the End of the World
  * Point Most West
  * No Snow White
  * Mammon
  * Needle
  
  III - Wholly Writ
  
  * Corn Is the Soil Song
  * Last Supper
  * Slight Bread
  * If Jesus Wept
  * Holy Moments
  * John 4:14, 15
  * Unremarkable They Grow
  * Is Prophecy a Gift?
  * Jacob Smith of Somerset
  * Openings
  * Thou Whose Hand Is Ever Light
  * Deep Slow Illness
  * All That the Earth Can Yield
  