Reflections / Carole Satyamurti xxv --
Two Set Out on Their Journey / Galway Kinnell 2 --
Over the Pass / Julie M. Convisser 3 --
Sky Is Blue / David Ignatow 4 --
A Geography of Lunch / Mary Jo Schimelpfenig 5 --
Sunday / B. Vincent Hernandez 6 --
Paper Matches / Paulette Jiles 7 --
Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali 7 --
Alloy / Robin Boody Galguera 8 --
For My Father / Philip Schultz 10 --
Primer / Chana Bloch 11 --
Vocation / William Stafford 13 --
Telepathy / Linda Besant 14 --
Yellow Delicious / Samuel Hazo 15 --
Apple-Eater / Linda Curtis Meyers 16 --
Coloring Book / Robert Farnsworth 17 --
On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar Systems / Edith Sodergran 19 --
Pee Wee Coach / Walter McDonald 19 --
Feminism / Denise Duhamel 21 --
Before Sleep / Moshe Dor 23 --
Second Childhood / Robin Boody Galguera 24 --
What a Boy Can Do / Alberto Rios 25 --
Red Cross Lessons at City Park Pool / Melody Lacina 25 --
La Sequia / Alberto Rios 27 --
My Father's Garden / E.K. Miller 28 --
Two Facts / David Huddle 29 --
Pokeberries / Ruth Stone 29 --
Taking the Hands / Robert Bly 30 --
From Him / Andra R. Davis 31 --
Touch / Kathryn Kerr 32 --
Size Is Relative / Chuck Martin 33 --
Rose / Cill Janeway 33 --
Boyhood Winter / George Eklund 34 --
A Suburban Childhood / Liz Rosenberg 35 --
Sins of the Fathers / Mark Vinz 36 --
My Daughter at 14: Christmas Dance, 1981 / Maria Mazziotti Gillan 37 --
Mystery / David Wevill 38 --
Father Falling / Peter Desy 39 --
Our Room / Molly Peacock 40 --
Once a Long Time Ago / Phillip Lopate 41 --
Mattress Fire / Penny Harter 43 --
Step on His Head / James Laughlin 44 --
Struggle / Toi Derricotte 45 --
Passages / Mark Vinz 46 --
Looking for Him / Patty Turner 47 --
Remembering Brother Bob / William Stafford 48 --
Exciting New Concept of Art Therapy / Marlys West 49 --
A Story / Li-Young Lee 52 --
Lizard's Tango / Lucia Casalinuovo 53 --
Backup / Wing Tek Lum 54 --
Black Patent Leather Shoes / Karen Mitchell 56 --
Short-Wave / Christopher Cokinos 57 --
For My Father's Mother Who Has Alzheimer's / M. Eliza Hamilton 58 --
I Just Wanna Testify / Cornelius Eady 61 --
Anti-Father / Rita Dove 62 --
Skokie Theatre / Edward Hirsch 66 --
Youngest Children of an Angel / Anna Swir 67 --
Foreign Exchange / Marion Winik 68 --
Fet Walks Melody Home / Gary Hyland 70 --
Steven Pudenz / Paul Bonin-Rodriguez 72 --
Dirty Panes / Judith Barrington 73 --
Nineteen / George Bogin 74 --
All Their Names Were Vincent / Miriam Kessler 76 --
Inner Man / Charles Simic 77 --
Locker Room / Nora Mitchell 78 --
In the Orchard / Gevorg Emin 80 --
Summer, At Home / Mary Clark 80 --
January / Cornelius Eady 81 --
Where Are You Going? / Nellie Wong 83 --
Spoon / Conrad Hilberry 84 --
Equality / Nina Cassian 85 --
Hey Sweetie / Albert Goldbarth 85 --
Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn / Tess Gallagher 86 --
Proposal / Kim Stafford 87 --
Fish Fact / Pamela Alexander 88 --
Ubiquity of the Need for Love / Ronald Koertge 89 --
Goodbye Note to Debbie Fuller: Pass it On / David Clewell 91 --
Performances / Nina Cassian 93 --
Meaning Well / Jack Gilbert 94 --
Jump City / Harryette Mullen 95 --
Passion and Woe in Marriage: A Ukranian Love Story / Peter Oresick 95 --
Quarrel / Grace Paley 96 --
Your Hands / Gevorg Emin 97 --
Two Men / Anne Waldman 98 --
January / William Virgil Davis 99 --
Yellow Hills in Back / Christianne Balk 100 --
For Night Comes / Gunnar Ekelof 101 --
Marriage / Joan Logghe 102 --
Estrangements / William Pitt Root 103 --
Friendship / Toi Derricotte 104 --
Gone Away / Hugo Williams 105 --
We Were Love / Yaedi Ignatow 105 --
Dressed Up / E. Ethelbert Miller 106 --
With Reservations / Naomi Stroud Simmons 107 --
Real Thing / Ronald Wallace 108 --
Astonishment / Anna Swir 109 --
Autobiography / Tommy Olofsson 109 --
Clothespin / Rhonda Bower 110 --
Surplus Blues / Raymond R. Patterson 111 --
This Woman / Donna Trussell 112 --
Goodbye / Robert Long 112 --
Elevator / Naomi Shihab Nye 114 --
Namelessness / David Wevill 115 --
Reach / Phyllis Janowitz 116 --
Real Names of Everything --
Ode to Tomatoes / Francisco X. Alarcon 118 --
Canning Season / Wendy Barker 119 --
It Happens Working / Richard E. McMullen 120 --
To a Set of Drawing Pencils / Fay Lipshitz 121 --
For the Woman at the Fast-Food Fish Place Who Called Me Pig / Gary Margolis 122 --
Momma Sayings / Harryette Mullen 123 --
Pyramid of Khufu / Khaled Mattawa 125 --
Wheelchairs That Kneel Down Like Elephants / Karen Fiser 127 --
Previous Occupant / Agha Shahid Ali 127 --
Carpenter's Daughter / Cathy Young Czapla 129 --
War / Gregory Orfalea 130 --
West Grand Boulevard / Faye Kicknosway 130 --
Cow Worship / Gerald Stern 131 --
Cow / Joan Fern Shaw 132 --
Typographical Errors / Geof Hewitt 133 --
Teaching Myself to Read / Karen Fiser 133 --
Kitchens / Eric Nelson 134 --
Living Lean / Christine Hemp 135 --
Old Dream Oven / Jacinto Jesus Cardona 136 --
Dream Kitchen / Sandra M. Gilbert 137 --
A Plague of Telephones / Jim Wayne Miller 139 --
Long Distance Calls / Marylee Skwirz 139 --
Mother / Zbigniew Herbert 140 --
Teacher I Wanted to Be / Ingrid Wendt 141 --
Lament for an Old Woman / Albert Huffstickler 142 --
One Man's Family / Rosemary Catacalos 143 --
Unwritten / W. S. Merwin 145 --
Emily Dickinson's To-Do List / Andrea Carlisle 146 --
A Little Piece of Sky / Sharif Elmusa 148 --
War Rug / Natasha Waxman 149 --
Plant Poem / Edward Field 151 --
Letting the Parakeet Fly / Judith Steinbergh 152 --
Small poems / Robert Burlingame 152 --
Elegy / Linda Pastan 154 --
Revelations, First Time / Roger Jones 156 --
Androgeny / Yaedi Ignatow 157 --
Shapes of Leaves / Arthur Sze 157 --
Images / Marilyn Williams 158 --
Burning the Dolls / Richard Peabody 159 --
Field Trip / Ellen Bryant Voigt 160 --
Summer Morning / Charles Simic 162 --
Depending on the Light / Andrea Potos 164 --
August / Shuntaro Tanikawa 165 --
When I Was Young on an Island / Diane Hina Kahanu 165 --
How to Hug Your Three-Year-Old Daughter / Paul B. Janeczko 167 --
4 daughters / Lucille Clifton 169 --
Disappearing / David Clewell 169 --
Medusa Cement / Alise Alousi 171 --
Lion Tamer / Paul Durcan 172 --
Tallness / Paulette Jiles 173 --
Who'd Want To Be A Man? / Gregory Orr 174 --
To Be A Woman / Daisy Zamora 175 --
Lunchtime / David Ignatow 176 --
Peace / Leslie Ullman 177 --
Onion Woman / Ted Kooser 179 --
My Mother's Blue Vase / Jeannette Doob 180 --
Everyone / Shuntaro Tanikawa 181 --
String Affair / Margo LaGattuta 182 --
Family / William Freedman 183 --
April Rape / Marilyn Nelson 184 --
On M. Butterfly / Wing Tek Lum 185 --
Tracing Back / Jane Mayhall 186 --
A Missed Opportunity / James Tate 187 --
Snow / Donna Trussell 188 --
We Say / Reginald Gibbons 190 --
Dennis's Sky Leopard / Thylias Moss 191 --
Wild Strawberries / Ronald Wallace 193 --
Camellias / Linda Pastan 194 --
Dressing My Daughter / George Eklund 195 --
Fitting Room / Lois Marie Harrod 196 --
Beginnings / Michael Burns 197 --
Late, Watching Television / Del Marie Rogers 198 --
Golden Season / Kurtis Lamkin 199 --
Dark Song / Martha Zweig 200 --
Driving My Parents Home at Christmas / Robert Bly 201 --
I Remember the Room Was Filled with Light / Judith Hemschemeyer 202 --
Was It / Philip Booth 202 --
Coats / Jane Kenyon 203 --
Romance / Gerald Stern 203 --
Archaeology / George Ella Lyon 204 --
Congressman Visits the Grade School / James Hathaway 205 --
Secretary Chant / Marge Piercy 206 --
Mountain Men / Tom Clark 201 --
Bali Hai Calls Mama / Marilyn Nelson 208 --
Here I Am / Li-Young Lee 210 --
Lost Girls / Linda Hogan 213 --
Travelling Together / W. S. Merwin 217.
