Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Writing Poetry 1
Bride Stripped Bare 2
The Forgiven Knife 3
Down and Up 4
The Forest 6
Spring and All 7
On Vacation 8
Subject for a Ballad 9
We Have Yet 10
At the Movies 11
The Hand 13
The Rope 14
Time and Objects 16
Summer Afternoon 17
Houses 18
When We Lived in Boulder 20
Camping 21
You Are Smiling at Yourself in the Mirror 22
Wolf 23
Calm Waters 24
1596 25
Fear and the City 26
Rain 27
Smoke 28
In China 29
Don't Slam the Door on Your Way Out 30
Self and Self 31
Father 32
Your Sister 33
Your Aunt 34
The Mall: 50% Off Day 35
The Tourist 36
The Longing 37
Girl Spinning 38
The Unknown 39
Urgent Care 40
Surrey 41
Bronze 42
Sky and Marble 43
Clawing 44
Together 45
Evening Newspaper 46
Rush Hour 47
The Argument 48
Early Bird 49
Strangers on the Train 50
Cyclops 51
Perfume 52
On Watching a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly 53
Le Port Nice 55
This Is Becoming a Trend 56
El Greco Comes Home 57
Color of the Wind 58