Table of Contents
Poems
We Astronomers 9
The Expanding Universe 10
When You Wish upon a Star 11
Girl with a Balloon 12
Explaining Relativity 13
Let There Always be Light 14
Dark Matter 15
Notte di San Giovanni 16
The Last Animists 17
Inventing Zero 18
Theories of Everything 19
Aberration 20
Carnal Knowledge 21
Constellations 22
What if There Were No Moon? 23
Observing 24
Some Thoughts about the Ocean and the Universe 25
Two Nuns, Lido Azzurro, September 26
Olduvai Song Line 27
Poem for my Father 28
Devonian Days 29
To Sarah's Child 30
Evolution 31
Myth 32
Frattura Vecchia 33
February, me Labat 34
The Silk Road 35
Arroyo 36
Moth 37
Salmon Running 38
In Opposition 39
After 40
After Max Ernst 41
Like Eels to the Sargasso Sea 42
To the Fig Tree in the Garden 43
Coming of Age in Foreign Lands 44
Chess Game in a Garden 45
Flying a Kite 46
Family Reunion 47
Futura Vecchia, New Year's Eve 48
Earing Bouillabaisse 49
Radiology South 50
Midwinter, Baffin Bay 51
Yosemite Valley: Coyotes Running through a Sleeping Camp 52
Returning to Camp 53
Hanging out his Boxer Shorts to Dry 54
Beauchamps: Renovations 55
The Ballad of just and While 56
The Still Lives of Appliances 57
OncoMouse, Kitchen Mouse 58
These Two Candles, Saint Pantelehm 59
Antidotes to Fear of Death 61
Extracts from the Notebook 63
From Stones to Stars 147