title: Entering
author:  Cecelia Hagen 
description: 'Entering' is an adult coming-of-age book. Cecelia Hagen's perceptions are spot-on, giving us 'the eye with its attentive hunger/or the body's appetite for flight.' Even the humor is wise. In 'I Want to Be a Man' she becomes a dog under the porch wondering 'what it's like/to be such a strange, unlikely thing/ as a woman.' In clear, attentive language, this poet tells us. --Penelope Scambly Schott<br /><br />This collection casts many nets, and it casts them far and wide--reincarnations, daily rituals, sex, divorce, memory, parenthood, out-of-body travel. In these poems, chicken necks thrown into the Chesapeake, blue gloves worn during sex, the thrust and dudgeon of crows, and a grown woman bathing in her mother's bathwater all occupy the same deeply felt territory. These are poems of experience, and they come from a body and a poet alive in the world, a woman who sees. . .'a vulgar beauty/I can't help loving a little more than I want to' --Michael McGriff
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  # CHAPTER THREE
  
  Two uneventful transits after leaving Zenebra, Cecelia was  
  in Castle Rock's nearspace, confirming that Miranda was still onplanet and
  still in residence in the Old Palace. When she called, the staff person who
  answered reported that Miranda would indeed be willing to see her. Cecelia
  made her shuttle reservation while waiting for the station tug to bump her
  gently into the docking harness. The paperwork necessary to clear the
  Rockhouse Major Dockmaster and Customs seemed to take forever (had Heris
  really coped with this much, or was it worse because of the assassination?)
  but she made her shuttle with a few minutes to spare. She saw no one she knew
  on Rockhouse Major, and no one familiar on the down shuttle. That suited her;
  she was in no mood to talk to any of her acquaintances.
  
  But when she came out of the shuttleport entryway, looking for a hirecar, she
  saw one of the long b