An Open Book (poetry collection)
# 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
