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Jean Valentine new poems from Door In the Mountain
The Very Bad Horse read listen print (pdf)
The Coin read listen print (pdf)
Once read listen print (pdf)
To the Bardo read listen print (pdf)
The Blue Dory, the Soul read listen print (pdf)
The Basket House read listen print (pdf)
Trim my hooves read listen print (pdf)
Door in the Mountain read listen print (pdf)
Inkwell       daybreak read listen print (pdf)
My old body read listen print (pdf)
Noon in the line outside read listen print (pdf)
One Foot in the Dark read listen print (pdf)
Your number is lifting
off my hand
read listen print (pdf)
The Windows read listen print (pdf)
Happiness (3) read listen print (pdf)
The Growing Christ of Tzintzuntzan read listen print (pdf)

Earlier poems
In addition to more than 70 new poems, 
Door in the Mountain: New & Collected Poems contains all the poems from each of Jean's books. Read and listen to some of those earlier poems here.

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