Table of Contents
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1960 3
Lucky Cat 5
Only Child 7
The Night of the Fallen Limb 9
Greece 11
Basho in Ireland 12
Not So Still Life 14
Cosmology 16
Dream Life 18
Hendrik Goltzius's "Icarus" (1588) 20
The Money Note 22
Helium 24
Weathervane 26
Species 27
The Bard in Flight 29
Sirens 31
Predator 33
Traffic 34
Sixteen Years Old, I Help Bring in the Hay on My Uncle John's Farm with Two French-Canadian Workers 35
The Present 36
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On Rhyme 41
The Five Spot, 1964 42
2128 43
Bags of Time 45
One Leg of the Journey 47
A Restaurant in Moscow 49
Tanager 51
Santorini 52
Bravura 54
Muybridge's Lobsters 56
Portrait 58
Early Morning 60
Child Lost at the Beach 62
In Praise of Ignorance 64
Microscopic Pants 65
Many Moons 67
Note to J. Alfred Prufrock 69
Speed Walking on August 31, 2013 70
December 1st 71
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Genuflection 75
Thanksgiving 77
Under the Stars 79
Mister Shakespeare 81
The Influence of Anxiety: a Term Paper 83
Goats 85
The Day After Tomorrow 87
A Day in May 89
The Lake 91
Solvitur Ambulando 92
Fire 94
Bachelorette Party 96
Oh, Lonesome Me 97
Meditation 99
Poem to the First Generation of People to Exist After the Death of the English Language 101
What a Woman Said to Me After a Reading in the Napa Valley 103
Joy 104
Acknowledgments 107