Foreword | p. xv |
Corners of the Mouth |
A Remedy, Withheld |
Where We Messed Up |
Imaginary Islands |
Souls Under Water |
The Piano |
Warhol |
Idaho Compline |
Self-Portrait in Ink |
People Walking in Fog |
"Why Do You Stay Up So Late?" |
Grown Men |
Lautrec |
Memento of the Hours |
Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at Eighty |
The Three Trees |
Van Leeuwenhoek, 1675 |
House of Gathering |
Lessons from the Natural World |
Departures: Last Flight from Fairbanks |
Homebody |
Janus-Igenuous |
To Err |
Incense |
Ice-Fog |
Shadow |
Melanoma |
Walking into the Future |
The Night of My Conception 1 |
Show Up |
(And More) |
Francesca Can Too Stop Thinking About Sex, Reflect upon her Position in Poetry, Write a Real Sonnet |
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" |
Precarious |
Do Not Forget My Name |
Seedtime |
Capitulations |
Bull's-Eye |
Choices |
Not a Sparrow |
Weather Report |
Cleaning a Rainbow |
Happiness Jazz |
The Gig |
Sonnet |
Historic House, Astoria |
Map |
At the Edges of Everything Crackling |
Six Short Ones |
The Question on the Floor |
When Kali Dances the Earth Around |
The Walk She Takes |
Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns |
Two Blue Elephants |
Poem for the End of the Century |
The Legend |
For the Homestead Friends |
Comb |
Drift and Pulse |
What Self |
Lessons from Thieves |
The New York Poem |
A Day Like This |
The Creature Quotidian |
Cutting Her Out from the Flock |
About These Trumpeters That Line My Walls |
On the Origin of Blind-Boy Lilikoi |
Meaning |
First Touch |
The New Orpheus |
Steelhead Almost |
Guarding the Dump |
Together in the Ice-storm |
from The Winter of Bridges |
Bird That Fell to the Ground |
Four Summer Outfits |
Flags-January 1999 |
Robins in the Dark |
Three Cafes |
Surplus |
A Winter Fairytale |
Old Age |
Avalanche |
Surrealism |
Rear View |
Pathetic Fallacy |
Shall I Compare Thee to Appearances? |
Turbulence |
Feast |
What (War 2003-) |
Open Land |
Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy |
Patrick Lane | p. 149 |
The War |
Howl |
The Light Next Door |
Can a Fire Burn Forever? |
Easter, 1999 |
A Measure of Desolation: February 2005 |
Watching a Fractal Set |
Describe Book Blurbs to Nationalism |
Describe Wildflowers to Ethics |
God the Synecdoche in His Holy Land |
Public Poem in the First Person |
The Orphan's Consolation |
Let's Say What's Always Left Unsaid |
1936. Hiroko's Passage |
Ballad for the Blue Moon Tavern |
Fourth of July, B.C. |
Impolitic |
Sampling |
Back to B.C. |
Song of the Saxifrage to the Rock |
"Stress, Shear, and Strain Theories of Failure" |
Specific Gravities: #76 (Marble) |
Astonished- |
Conviction |
On Sending Out Our Kids Again |
Girlfriends |
Junkyard |
Elders |
Hansel and Gretel's Father Explains |
Origami Dove |
The Room Where They Found You |
Out of Time |
from Hand Luggage-A Memoir in Verse |
Ah, by the Golden Lilies |
The Second Letter of St. Paul on the Human Genome Project |
from Patient 6 |
Four Swans |
The Empress |
Anagrammer |
The Devil's Dictionary of Medical Terms |
For the First Crow with West Nile Virus to Arrive in Our State |
Viagra |
Voluptuaries |
Apologia Pro Vita Sua |
Upon the Deliberation of Their Domestic Policy |
Penmanship |
Everything Is a Metaphor |
Skin |
Hunger |
Door |
Man on Deck |
Travelling One Way |
Looking for Work |
New God |
Medicine-Meeting, Hoopa, 1994 |
We Knew Them |
Bucket |
Vice |
High in the Bamboo |
On the Empire Builder Heading West |
Swans, Where We Don't Expect Them |
The Forbidden Fruit |
Gauguin in Oregon |
Brahms in Delirium |
Esta Spalding | p. 245 |
The Key |
Mrs. Barlowe's Plum Tree |
Train Window |
Primus St. John | p. 252 |
Watering the Orchids |
Batey Tumba |
Neighbors |
The Girl from Panama |
Grogginess |
Halting Meditation |
On the Boulders of Inanity |
Light Years |
Steelhead |
Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc |
Knocking or Nothing |
The Day Lady Di Died |
You People |
Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935) |
Up the Steps of the Capitol |
Sonnet: "Sweetest bleeding..." |
Sonnet: "Bitter seed..." |
Sonnet: "Nothing was ever..." |
What the Stones Say |
Desire |
For an Old Woman at the Gate |
Thoreau and the Quagmire |
Appalachian Midrash |
Kuf: Mnemonic |
Mukilteo Ferry |
Y |
After We Received the News of the 100-Mile Wind |
For One Who Prays for Me |
News |
Letter to a Young Poet |
Kissing Booth |
Reined In |
Busted |
Biographies of the Poets | p. 293 |
Acknowledgments | p. 327 |