Gratitude
1. After Night Fell Down the Abyss
2. Second Choice
3. Ridiculous
4. Just Like That
5. December 21st
6. Number One
Dawn
Winter Flowers
The Thing Written
God’s Brother
Delmore Schwartz
A Visit to the Prado
Playing Soldier
Woodhaven
Battle
Epitaph for a Cook
My Old Car
An American Hero
Ubuntu
SM
The Lord Is Mistaken
Evening Song
Slip of the Pen
Night Flight
The Auction
Idling
Reading Half-Awake
Letter to the Butterflies
A Purge Without Pity
An Old Marriage
Letter to Laren
Beyond
Poem
Wedding Poem, Alas
Rothko
Thanksgiving
Piss
A Poem for All Occasions
A Hoot for Willis Barnstone
Duet
Pilgrim Questions
Trump
Fallout
New Born
The Table
Wet Paint
Unfallen
Spring Morning
Time’s Bones
A Poem Called Day
The Poem of Self
July 4
Parable of the Porcupine
Bright Day
Parable of the Book-Man
Pax Poetica
Paper Swallow
Fantasy on a Goya Drawing
Song of Barbed Wire
Death Is a Dream
56,000-Year Poem
Seems
A Misfortune
Two Arias
Revenge Comedy
Burial of the Gravedigger’s Daughter
What
Why
Elegy for Oliver Sacks
Pollen
Chrysalis
Winter
Letter to a Poet
Sister Poem
Coda
A Refreshment
Visiting Star
The Carpenter
Drinking Song
Letter to Dannie Abse
A Kid in a “Record Crowd”
Spring Poem for Christopher Middleton
Jerusalem Wedding
Spoon
Poem of the Pillow
Happy 87th Birthday
Letter to a Fish
The Fish Answers
Snowbound
Rope
Signifier
Pacemaker
Granite
I Sit Much with My Dog
Hell
Cautionary Tale
Song of Jerusalem Neighbors
Affluent Reader
The American Dream
No Tear Is Commonplace
December 8
Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and Her Child
Notices
Mocking Gods
Now
Tightrope Walking
Smiles
A Metaphoric Trap Sprung
Mind
Christmas 2014
2 AM
Fathers
Psalm
The Perfect Democracy
The Gambler
Monday
A Rose
Album
Mr. Trouble
My Mother’s Memorial Day
Alexander Fu Musing
To Alexander Who Wants to Be a Cosmologist
To Alexander Fu on His Beginning and 13th Birthday
A Red Envelope
Children’s Song
Birthday Wishes
Spit
Waltz
My Good Old Shirt
Silence
Elegy for Elia
Gardens and Unpunctuated Poetry
Review
Tears
For Good Measure
A Walk
Last Meow
9 Chocolates
The Seagull
Rejoicing
Nightingale
Song of Alphabets
The Bathers
In the Rain
Wildflowers
A Blind Fisherman
Dangerous Game
Tell Me Pretty Maiden
The Ring in My Nose
Godmothers
Bone
To a Stranger
Poets at Lunch
Requiem
Big Left Toe
The Man Tree
Vanitas
Bad Joke
Song of No God
Glutton
The Icehouse and the Pond
Munich 2010
Dogs
Listening to Water
That Morning
Autumn
Three Songs for a Single String
And There are African Links/Licks in Every Language
Sand
On Bees Disappearing in America and Europe but Not in Britain
Down River
The Giant Bathers
Cruelty and Love
Sleep
Please
A Wolf’s Song
On William Blake’s Drawing, “The Ghost of a Flea”
A Glance at Turner
Capriccio
Clouds
Over Drinks
I’ll Be Back To You
The Wild Dogs of San Miguel de Allende
The Unicorn
For My Godmother, Twenty Years Later
The Messiah Comes to Venice
Squeezing the Lemon
The Hudson River
Anatomy Lessons
February
Space Poem
The Grammarian
Onlyness
Seventh Child
Eye
For Georgie
Chorus
Peace
Anonymous Poet
Hotel Room Birthday Party, Florence
Then
Satyr Song
A Satyr’s Complaint
Diary of a Satyr
A History of Color
Ransom
Heart Work
To My Friend Born Blind
Subway Token
The Cellist
The Good Shepherd
Song of an Imaginary Arab
A Fall
The Celestial Fox
The Falcon
Judas
An Argument with My Wife
Grace
El Sol
Tsunami Song
China Song
Beauty is Not Easy
Song for a Lost River
Rainbows and Circumcision
I Have Come to Jerusalem
Jerusalem: Easter, Passover
A Guest in Jerusalem
Exchange of Gifts
The Louse
Work Song
Babies
Praise
Near Machpelah/Hebron
To Ariel, My Arabist Friend
A Visit to the Devil’s Museum in Kaunas
Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941
Chinese Prayer
The Startling
A Riff for Sidney Bechet
The Lost Brother
Elegy for A 5,000-Year-Old Tree
The Last Judgment
Some Flowers
Romance
2002, Alas
September 11th: A Fable
A Dentist
Wedding Invitation
Song of Imperfection
Good News Song
Post-Surgery Song
Hot News, Stale News
The Film Critic Imaginaire
Facing the Red Sea
The Family
It Came Down to This
The Black Maple
Dark Clouds
How I Got Ted Roethke’s Raccoon-Skin Coat
For Virginia on her 90th Birthday
June 21st
Ovidian Follies
1. Phaeton
2. Criton
Pope Pius XII Announced He was Visited by Christ on his Sickbed
Prophecy I
Stowaway
Hermaphrodites in the Garden
The Blanket
Hannibal Crossing the Alps
Annunciation
The Poet
The Swimmer
Letter to an Unknown
Alexander Fu
Alexander’s First Battle
Alexander Fu to Stanley
Letter to Alexander Fu, Seven Years Old
To Angelina, Alexander’s Cousin, Whose Chinese Name Means Happiness
April, Beijing
China Poem
Dog
On Trying To Remember Two Chinese Poems
Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena
A Poor Woman
Allegory of the Laughing Philosopher
Lullaby
Centaur Song
A Visit to The Island of Jamaica
In Front of a Poster of Garibaldi
A Gambler’s Story
To My Son’s Wife on Her Wedding Day
Stations
Allegory of Smell
Allegory of Evil in Italy
Lost Daughter
Shoes
Song for Stanley Kunitz
In Defense of a Friend
Lowell
Krill
The Battle
You and I
Song of Introduction
Mon Père, Elegy for Paul Celan
The Altar
Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet
Daydream
The Public Gardens of Munich
The Miscarriage
The Inheritance
New Moon
Letter to Noah
The Poor of Venice
The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud
The Lace Makers
The Geographer
The Debt
For Margaret
Ruse
The Decadent Poets of Kyoto
Following the Saints
On Seeing an X-Ray of My Head
God Poem
Elegy for Myself
Sailing from the United States
And Now There Is No Place to Look
The Gift
Nicky
The Peddler
Travels, Barcelona
Cloud Song
Apocrypha
Night in the Country
New York Song
Shit
Vomit
Snot
An Exchange of Hats 466
Frog 468
Prophecy II 469
Along the Tiber: A Commentary on Antony and Cleopatra (1956–2002)
Backstage
Clown
Lost Poem
Walking
Mecox Bay
I Drive a Hearse
The Hangman’s Love Song
Dulcie
The Return
A Valentine’s Day Sketch of Negro Slaves, Jews in Concentration Camps, and Unhappy Lovers
Two Fishermen
September Evening
Roethke’s Pajamas
Winter in Vermont
Jane’s Grandmother
Panda Song
Poem Before Marriage
Sweet Questions
Potato Song
Sign on the Road
Prayer for Zero Mostel
The Red Fields
Plumage
Scarecrow
The Good Things
The Meeting
Clams
Lot’s Daughter
Lot’s Son
Photography Isn’t Art
Morning
Return from Selling
Two Riders
War Ballad
Who Are You?
The Gentle Things
The Garden
Prayer
Celia, a Ditty
On the Occasion of Stanley Kauffmann’s Fiftieth Birthday
Love’s Edge
For Uncle Lem
Scroll
Kangaroo
Old
The Lesson of the Birds
The Valley
For James Wright
Lenin, Gorky and I
Song for Concertina
Communiqué from an Army Deserter, Probably Italian
Off to the Fair
An English Defeat
Fact Song
Voice
Che Guevara
Two Minutes Early
Before the Fire
The Branch
Castello Sermoneta
A Dead Nun’s Complaint After the Dance
Death of a Spanish Child
The Scholar
Squall
Death in Paris
Grinder
On Crossing the Atlantic
How Suddenly Exhausted
For Loving is Real
Rolling Out of Bed
The Ships Go Nowhere
The Longest Journey
Visiting the Egyptian Rooms of the Louvre
Bad Day, Good Day
A Song and Dance for Aaron and Antonia
Peace Talk
The Wanton Voyager
Love is Confined
Two Haystacks
Desertion
Man’s Wife
Lady of Turquoise