Ghazal: "A language of loss ..." 1 --
Ghazal: "But first the screened mirror ..." 2 --
Rooms Are Never Finished 5
Ohio Fields After Rain 9 --
Book of the Dead Man (#35) 14 --
Book of the Dead Man (#61) 15 --
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps (#6) 17
For the Twentieth Century 23 --
Ponds: Franz Kafka, June 1, 1924 27
What i think when i ride the train 29
New York Three Decades On 37 --
A Walrus Tusk from Alaska 39
On Mount Timpanogos, 1935 43
Elizabeth Bishop, Croton, Watercolor, 9" [times] 5 3/4", n.d. 57 --
Owl-Spirit Dwelling 82 --
Birds of the Holy Land 101 --
How to Forgive the Father Who Screams at His Son 109 --
Matchbook: The Spinnaker (Sausalito) 110 --
My Grandfather's Necktie 116
Filling in the Graves at a Cherokee Site 133 --
Reincarnation of a Lovebird 134
Garden of the Trumpet Tree 140 --
Eclogue at Twilight 148 --
Nude Interrogation 151 --
"He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do" 158 --
Keats in California 160 --
Anastasia & Sandman 165 --
Oldest Living Thing in L.A. 170 --
From Gradeschool Window Watching Local Bookie Arrested 173 --
Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball 174 --
Marine Snow at Mid-Depths and Down 175 --
Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City 176
Etymological Dirge 182 --
Father of the Predicaments 182 --
A Salt: Three Variations on Five Senses 183
Above the Red Deep-Water Clays 185 --
Bar at The Andover Inn, 1995 190 --
Oblique Muscle (Meditation on a Famous Blindness) 199 --
Live Jazz, Franklin Park Zoo 203 --
On Plans to Decimate the Entire British Herd 208
Onomastics & the Falling Snow 211
If There's a God ... 216 --
Phantom Haiku/silent Film 220
Interior: The Kill 229 --
Catbird Beginning with a Cardinal 241 --
A Little Ovid Late in the Day 244 --
Common Crows in a Winter Tree 248 --
From the Life of Don Margarito 250 --
Los Voladores de Papantla 251
Guests of the Wedding 255
Honeymoon in Florence 259 --
"Come Back, or Send Somebody" 281 --
Lights from a Pier 282 --
My Mother's Name in English 283
Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers 285 --
St. Augustine's Goldfinch 286
A Portrait of Larry with Trogons 289 --
A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog 290
"In Heaven It Is Always Autumn" 292 --
Two Chairs on a Hillside 293
Larry Levis Visits Easton, Pa., During a November Freeze 297 --
I Will Love the Twenty-First Century 307
An Afternoon Stroll 308 --
Scattered Reflections 309 --
Commuter Marriage: Homecoming 312 --
Liquids in Quantities 315 --
Art of Distance, I 318 --
What I Remember of Larry's Dream of Yeats 320
Island in the Charles 327 --
Word Hoard Against the Gnostics 337
Cervical Jazz: A Girlfriend Poem 340 --
Revolving House or or Another Girlfriend Poem 342 --
Spring Street Girlfriend 342
Appalachian Book of the Dead VI 344 --
Opus Posthumous III 345 --
St. Augustine and the Arctic Bear 346.