[section 1]. From The apple that astonished Paris (1988)
Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house
Walking across the Atlantic
Plight of the troubadour
The lesson
Winter syntax
Advice to writers
The rival poet
Insomnia
Earthling
Books
Bar time
My number
Introduction to poetry
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
Schoolsville
[section 2]. From Questions about angels (1991)
American sonnet
Questions about angels
A history of weather
The death of allegory
Forgetfulness
Candle hat
Student of clouds
The dead
The man in the moon
The wires of the night
Vade mecum
Not touching
The history teacher
First reader
Purity
Nostalgia
[section 3]. From The art of drowning (1995)
Consolation
Osso Buco
Directions
Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales
The best cigarette
Days
Tuesday, June 4, 1991
Canada
On turning ten
Workshop
My heart
Budapest
Dancing toward Bethlehem
Monday morning
Center
Design
Pinup
Piano lessons
The blues
Man in space
Nightclub
Some final words
[section 4]. From Picnic, lightning (1998)
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now
I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice"
Afternoon with Irish cows
Marginalia
Some days
Picnic, lightning
Morning
Bonsai
Shoveling snow with Buddha
Snow
Japan
Victoria's secret
Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey
Paradelle for Susan
Lines lost among trees
Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes
The night house
Splitting wood
The death of the hat
Passengers
Where I live
Aristotle
[section 5]. New poems
Dharma
Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty, I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles
Snow day
Insomnia
Madmen
Sonnet
Idiomatic
The waitress
The butterfly effect
Serenade
The three wishes
Pavilion
The movies
Jealousy
Tomes
Man listening to disc
Scotland
November
The iron bridge
The flight of the reader.