Table of Contents
New Poems
Memory of a Bird 3
On the Sill of the World 4
Sting 5
For Miriam, Who Hears Voices 6
A Different Kind of April: For Joan 7
I Hold My Breath 8
Truce 9
Kristallnacht 10
Instruction 11
Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland 12
Class Notes 13
The Tourist 14
Squint, 15
Tulips in a glass vase 16
Plunder: To a Young Friend 17
Ode to My Car Key 18
Cataracts 19
Apartment Life 20
The Clouds 21
The Quarry, Pontoise 22
Interior, Woman at the Window 23
Anonymous 24
Rereading Anna Karenina for the Fifth Time 25
Crimes 26
How Far Would You Trust Your Art? 27
Mirage 28
The Collected Poems 29
Summer Triptych 30
Lightning 31
At the Winery 32
Autumn: For Jane Kenyon 33
Away 34
The Future 35
From The Last Uncle (2002)
Women on the Shore 39
Practicing 40
Tears 41
Grace 42
The Cossacks: For F 43
Potsy 44
Bess 45
Armonk 46
The Last Uncle 47
Husbandry 48
Ghiaccio 49
The Death of the Bee 50
From Queen of a Rainy Country (2006)
A Tourist at Ellis Island 53
Maiden Name 54
Parting the Waters 55
I Married You 56
50 Years 57
Firing the Muse 58
Rereading Frost 59
Heaven 60
Geography 61
Leaving the Island 62
Death Is Intended 63
What We Are Capable Of 64
Why are your poems so dark? 65
A Rainy Country 66
From Traveling Light (2011)
The Burglary 69
Bread 70
March 71
Lilacs 72
Eve on Her Deathbed 74
Years After the Garden 75
Cows 76
Q and A 77
On Seeing an Old Photograph 78
Ash 79
Silence 80
In the Forest 81
Somewhere in the World 82
On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial 83
The Ordinary 84
Flight 85
Traveling Light 86
From Insomnia (2015)
Insomnia: 3 AM 89
Consider the Space Between Stars 90
Late In October 91
In the Orchard 92
First Snow 93
The Gardener 94
After the Snow 95
Edward Hopper, Untided 96
Adam and Eve 97
Fireflies 98
Imaginary Conversation 99
In the Happo-En Garden, Tokyo 100
River Pig 101
Ship's Clock 102
At Maho Bay: For Jon 103
Ah, friend 104
Last Rites 105
Musings Before Sleep 106
From A Dog Runs Through It (2018)
The Great Dog of Night 111
The New Dog 112
Domestic Animals 113
In the Walled Garden 114
I Am Learning to Abandon the World: For M 115
McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader 116
Pluto 118
Argos 119
The Animals 120
Old Joke 121
Envoi 122
