title: The Getting of Vellum (Salmon Poetry)
author:  Catherine Byron 
description: After Propertius 1.19<br /> After The Nuptial Mass<br /> Allowing The Animal<br /> Amour Fou<br /> The Blue Darkness<br /> Booked In<br /> By The Calf Bay At Lumb Bank<br /> Coco De Mer<br /> Coffin. Crypt. Consumption.<br /> Egyptians<br /> The Getting Of Vellum<br /> The Hotel Hades<br /> The Hunt By Night In The Bookshop<br /> I Missed Your Resurrection<br /> Minding You<br /> Morbid Anatomy<br /> My Father's Son<br /> 'the Natural Gates And Alleys Of The Body'<br /> Possession<br /> Renderers<br /> St Patrick's Purgatory, January<br /> St Thomas Aquinas In Macneice's House<br /> Suffer...<br /> That Winter, That Summer<br /> Writing On Skin<br /> -- <i>Table of Poems from <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/poemfinder.html/${0}">Poem Finder</a></i>
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  # Her Fresh Start Cowboy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Ellen Joy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  For Danielle. Thank you for always supporting me.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Books by Ellen Joy](part0004.html#3Q280-4d2e0b3af76f49b2ace6e6abbb406b9c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0005.html#4OIQ0-4d2e0b3af76f49b2ace6e6abbb406b9c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0006.html#5N3C0-4d2e0b3af76f49b2ace6e6abbb406b9c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0007.html#6LJU0-4d2e0b3af76f49b2ace6e6abbb406b9c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0008.html#7K4G0-4d2e0b3af76f49b2ace6e6abbb406b9c)
  
  
  
  