Table of Contents
I Whereof the Gift Is Small 19
The Path, the Chair 20
A Day's Work 24
Our Mantle 26
Purim and the Beetles of Our Lady 28
Discrete Activities 30
Indian Pipes 32
The Furtive Visit 34
Elegy Beginning with Half a Line from Ben Jonson 35
Rosie Speaks 37
The Luxury 38
II Ancient History in the Eye Center 43
Murder 45
Radford, Virginia, 1904 48
The Revisionist Dream 51
Taken Inside 52
The Bird, the Court of Common Pleas, the Czar 54
The Last Good War 56
The Standing Roast 57
Wellfleet, Cape Cod 58
No Place 60
National Velvet 62
III Old News 65
Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts I 66
Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts II 67
The Pre-trial Confinement of Private Bradley Manning 68
Sonnets Uncorseted 69
IV At the End 81
Xanthopsia 82
Howl Revisited 84
On Speaking Terms 85
Mourners, Onlookers, Gawkers 86
Seeing Things 89
The Women Return from Digging Roots in the Kalahari 90
The Last Word 91
Truth 92
V Ah, Poetry 95
William Carlos Williams 96
Provincetown, Cape Cod, 1963 98
The Day My Student Teaches Me That Life Is Not Art 99
Cabbages 100
Either Or 102
Going Down 103
Just Deserts 105
Pallas's Horse 106
This One 107
Allow Me 108
