Table of Contents
The Thousand Goodbyes 7
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe 11
The Sleeper 13
Offertory 18
Food Ode 21
Artichoke 23
Kartoffelpuffer 24
Unearthed [1988] 27
Transhumance 29
The Homecoming 30
Freienbach 32
Göschenen 37
Dual Citizen 39
Mother Tongues 45
The Driver 48
Court 49
The Pawned Wedding Ring 50
Dural Way 52
Translation Loss 54
Water-getting by Moonlight 56
Next 60
Last Words 61
Recovery Room 62
Rehabilitation 63
The Disenfranchised Grievers 65
Brag Book: Seventeen Years 67
Other Elegy
Lamartine, The Lake 71
Alysoun 74
Pictures, as Promised 76
Kelp 80
Reflection 83
Fox Absence 84
Bee Tree on Vegan Block 85
Wild Oats 87
For John, in Sickness and in Health 89
Weeding 90
Dialogue, with Bike 92
Ramble 94
Vertigo 96
Doubles 97
Rilke, Requiem for a Woman Friend 102