Table of Contents
New Poems
My Hand Collection 3
Three Poems by Wilhelm Müller 5
Prelude, Delay, and Epitaph 8
The Novelist 10
One Year Later 12
Wolf's Trees 14
Bacon's Easel 15
Palm Beach Sightings 17
Kiss Kiss 18
My Robotic Prostatectomy 19
Two Arias from The Marriage of Figaro 21
His Own Life 33
Cagaloglu 28
from Scenes from Another Life | 1981
Aubade 35
A Winter Without Snow 36
The Tears of the Pilgrims 39
from Stars Principal | 1986
At a Reading 49
The Cup 52
Anthem 54
The Palace Dwarf 55
A Cold in Venice 57
The Lesson in Prepositions 59
Bees 63
Hummingbird 64
Ovid's Farewell 65
from The Rest of the Way | 1990
Medea in Tokyo 73
The Rented House 74
The Shield of Herakles 77
Fog Tropes 80
Heads 87
An Essay on Friendship 90
The Window 108
Kilim 110
from Ten Commandments | 1998
The Ledger 127
My Sideshow 128
My Early Hearts 130
My Old Idols 134
My Mammogram 136
Found Parable 140
Tea With the Local Saint 142
Under Hydra 145
Auden's OED 147
What They Left Behind 153
Proust in Bed 154
Three Dreams About Elizabeth Bishop 158
Late Night Ode 162
from Hazmat | 2002
Fado 167
Glanum 169
Jihad 173
Orchid 175
Cancer 176
Penis 178
Tattoos 182
The Agave 193
The Fever 195
The Infection 196
Late Afternoon, Rome 197
The Bookcase 198
Hotel Bar 199
A Tour of the Volcano 200
Little Elegy 201
Ouija 202
from Mercury Dressing | 2009
Mercury Dressing 211
Er 212
Self-Portrait as Amundsen 216
The Frame 217
Resignation 219
Sorrow in 1944 220
Lingering Doubts 230
Three Overtures 232
Trees, Walking 238
Going Back to Bed 248
Full Cause of Weeping 249
A View of the Sea 252
Notes 257
Acknowledgments 263