Table of Contents
The Infinities 1
I don't know when it began
I have traded- childhood exuberance
Because we live
On Palling (Blue Spruce) 4
On Kingdoms 6
On Diminishment 7
Givens 12
Almanac 14
On Surmising 16
Evenings and Days 19
Having woken many days
There were evenings
Of course there were days
On Mercy 22
Statue from Antiquity 23
On Standing Still 24
Portrait in Summer 28
The Nets 30
A Friendship 32
Elegy 33
Crossland 34
The Dusks 36
The Devotions 39
Have you been there all along
When I step out of the action
There is no masterwork
I walked for an hour
And if it is true
Only for this
Cancer (Prayer for My Father) 45
On Abiding 47
New Year 53
Night Sky 57
What if this darkness
And what did you see
We were born
Dark summer grass
What have you, in such indignation, become
The birds have disappeared into trees
But you are unscathed
We were weightless
Quiet, liquid pearl
And sometimes sky
Desert heat rippling the dusk
There is no almanac
We seek the dark
Dusk, electrical veil
Against the white walls
They were never yours
Long days
If you have grieved you have loved
Power lines shine from the rain
Millenia. Dry winds
Who are we, on the ground
Centuries, signal flares
Underground fountains and grottos
Dark blue
It is easy
Hammered copper
Anker it e glints in the ground
It is late
In the ease of winds and sun
Black sky soaked with ghost-violet
Time of wind, time of dust, time of sky
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