INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

2 AM		142
2002, Alas		336
56,000-Year Poem		75
9 Chocolates		182
A
A Blind Fisherman		198
A child of seven, I swam across the Hudson		249
A clothesline		176
A common satyr and poet, I want a hero		263
A creature half horse, half human,		393
A cup of tea, a shot of old whiskey,		4
A Dead Nun’s Complaint After the Dance		541
A Dentist		338
A Fall		296
A father is teaching his daughter to swim		304
A few days after your first birthday,		379
A friend told me Jesus said,		144
A Gambler’s Story		398
A Glance at Turner		238
A Guest in Jerusalem		313
A History of Color		281
A Hoot for Willis Barnstone		43
A Kid in a “Record Crowd”		107
A Metaphoric Trap Sprung		140
A mile from the Atlantic,		348
A Misfortune		78
A Poem Called Day		56
A Poem for All Occasions		42
A poet friend was caught in the john		34
A Poor Woman		389
A Purge Without Pity		34
A Refreshment		99
A Riff for Sidney Bechet		328
A Rose		155
A Satyr’s Complaint		267
A Song and Dance for Aaron and Antonia		563
A Valentine’s Day Sketch of Negro Slaves, Jews in Concentration Camps, and Unhappy Lovers		488
A Visit to the Devil’s Museum in Kaunas		324
A Visit to The Island of Jamaica		394
A Visit to the Prado		16
A Walk		180
A week ago my friend, a physician, phoned		251
A Wolf ’s Song		236
A word, I have a life to speak.		562
Affluent Reader		130
After a difficult illness, in letters to friends I wrote:		213
After an Atlantic hurricane,		349
After his death, her blood was glass		415
After Night Fell Down the Abyss		3
After Night fell down the Abyss,		3
After the lesson of the serpent there is the lesson		366
Again the same old stew,		19
Age three, I cried “help.”		19
Aging, I am a stowaway in the hold of my being.		365
Album		157
Alexander Fu		376
Alexander Fu Musing		161
Alexander Fu to Stanley		378
Alexander’s First Battle		377
Allegory of Evil in Italy		403
Allegory of Smell		402
Allegory of the Laughing Philosopher		390
Along the Tiber: A Commentary on Antony and Cleopatra (1956)		470
Among ancient trees, there stood a colossal Oak		358
Among family photos,		157
An American Hero		22
An Argument with My Wife		301
An easy bus ride or short walk through Rome,		362
An English Defeat		532
An Exchange of Hats		466
An Old Marriage		35
An oracle told me		364
Anatomy Lessons		250
Ancient Hebrew judges		533
Ancient of Days,		413
Ancient of Days, bless the innocent		505
And Now There Is No Place to Look		450
And now there is no place to look,		450
And there are African Links/Licks in Every Language		228
Angular Egypt lived for the dead,		561
Annunciation		372
Anonymous Poet		260
Another Reply for Pompey		476
Antony with Cleopatra		471
Anyone can see suffering		536
Anything is the same old anything. I’ve become part of the thingness		169
Apocrypha		458
Apollo, my canines are into the marrow.		204
April, Beijing		382
As full of Christianity		316
At Piazza Santa Croce		250
At the school in the Plaza Hotel, Mexico,		244
Autumn		226
B
Babies		318
Babies, babies,		318
Backstage		477
Bad Day, Good Day		562
Bad Joke		213
Barbed wire and ground glass,		531
Battle		19
Beauty Is not Easy		306
Because he would not abandon the flock for a lost sheep		293
Because I’ve lived beyond my years, I’m in the soup.		40
Before the Fire		538
Before the geography of flowers and fruit,		434
Better if I had said in song what I wanted		239
Better to wear an archaic smile		199
Beyond		37
Big fool, my ancestors understood		378
Big Left Toe		210
Birthday Wishes		165
Blake drew a giant flea inhabited		237
Bone		204
Born where the hill is fertile, on soiled earth,		560
Brayed at, with an equine kiss		163
Bright Day		66
Burial of the Gravedigger’s Daughter		83
C
Can I disentangle		453
Capriccio		239
Castello Sermoneta		540
Cautionary Tale		128
Celia, a Ditty		518
Centaur Song		393
Certainly our fields were planted		471
Changing right to wrong takes time		77
Charmian to Enobarbarus		473
Che Guevara		536
Children’s Song		164
China Poem		384
China Song		305
Chinese Prayer		326
Chorus		258
Christmas 2014		141
Chrysalis		92
Clams		505
Cloud Song		456
Clouds		241
Coda		98
Communiqué from an Army Deserter, Probably Italian		530
Creature to creature,		406
Criton		358
Cruelty and Love		233
Cruelty will not fool me,		233
Cut from your mother, there was a first heartache,		162
Cut the cable! But not their throats. Caesar		476
D
Dangerous Game		199
Dark Clouds		350
Darkness, sunlight and a little holy spit		496
Dawn		9
Day is carved in marble, a man reclining,		56
Daydream		421
Dear Monarchs, fellow Americans,		32
Death in Paris		549
Death is a celestial fox that leaps out of his coffin,		297
Death Is a Dream		73
Death is a dream. Time,		73
Death is not Prime Minister or resplendent,		287
Death of a Spanish Child		542
Death, take a Mediterranean cruise,		26
5. December 21st		7
December 8		133
Delmore Schwartz		15
Desertion		568
Diary of a Satyr		269
Doctor, I could have asked but never did		106
Dog		385
Dogs		220
Down River		231
Dr. Abrams, your last name ends in “S,”		28
Drinking Song		104
Duet		44
Dulcie		486
E
Early morning, what poems I read don’t make sense,		31
El Sol		303
Elegy for A 5,000-Year-Old Tree		330
Elegy for Elia		172
Elegy for Myself		448
Elegy for Oliver Sacks		88
Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and Her Child		134
Enobarbus Plans for Cleopatra		472
Epitaph for a Cook		19
Especially he loves		446
Evening Song		27
Exchange of Gifts		314
Eye		256
F
Facing the Red Sea		345
Fact Song		533
Fallout		48
Fantasy on a Goya Drawing		71
Father Goya told me		71
Fathers		144
February		251
Fifty stories high,		181
Finally it comes down to it,		29
First I embrace you. I come prepared with this,		399
Five centimeters, already Chinese,		375
Foggy weather.		394
Following the Saints		442
For Georgie		257
For Good Measure		178
For James Wright		526
For Loving is Real		556
For Margaret		438
For My Godmother, Twenty Years Later		246
For Uncle Lem		520
For Virginia on her 90th Birthday		352
Francisco Goya y Lucientes,		69
Frog		468
From the rock of my heart a horse rose,		442
From whose breast does the milk of madness course?		350
Full of the city and accounting, I stepped out of my car		428
Fulvia to Cleopatra: A First Wife’s Complaint		474
G
Gardens and Unpunctuated Poetry		174
Gardens do not need punctuation		174
Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941		325
Give me a death like Buddha’s. Let me fall		517
Give me a death like hers without tears,		246
Glutton		215
God of paper and writing. God of first and last drafts,		146
God of Walls and Ditches, every man’s friend,		326
God Poem		446
God washed his womb in the ocean.		189
God, how do you dew?		55
God’s Brother		14
Godmothers		203
Good News Song		341
Grace		302
Granite		121
Gratitude		3
Greetings, I hope you will not be disappointed I survived		429
Grinder		552
H
Half man, half book, he spent the day		67
Hannibal Crossing the Alps		371
Happy 87th Birthday		115
He found his good wife weeping alone		344
He heard God coughing in the next apartment,		15
He lived in flight from an apartment,		478
He might have made some other sign,		308
He needed to be held, so his country		409
He painted his faults,		178
He rode into the city unrecognized on a lion,		247
He stared at a word and saw his face,		373
He urged his starving elephants upward into the snows,		371
Heart Work		288
Hell		126
Hell’s asleep now.		526
Here in Naples if you starve, fight,		529
Here is a lady with a unicorn in her lap,		245
Hermaphrodites in the Garden		366
Herodotus tells us in an election year		343
His last words, “The Sun is God.”		238
His or her life was never as close to us as now.		208
His smile says he has had the smell of it,		402
His stride is part delusion.		481
Home, I bang the sand out of my shoes.		405
Honeysuckle grows over the sleeve		502
Hot News, Stale News		343
Hotel Room Birthday Party, Florence		261
How can you run about		155
How I Got Ted Roethke’s Raccoon-Skin Coat		351
How lucky we are to have Stanleys,		518
How Suddenly Exhausted		554
How suddenly exhausted, singed and empty as shells broken.		554
I
I am death’s Sancho Panza.		511
I am just a has been and a will be.		137
I am like a book fallen from your lap.		477
I am part man, part seagull, part turtle.		494
I am prepared to believe Yahweh has a younger brother.		14
I argued with a dear friend, a psychiatrist		139
I believe love saves the world from heartbreak.		114
I borrowed a basket of grapes, I paid back in wine.		130
I built our house on Mecox Bay		220
I call out this morning: Hello, hello.		66
I can’t walk far or drive away.		118
I cannot forget the little swamp		465
I cannot sanctify. Take heart,		503
I caught you and loved you when I was three		116
I change apartments,		491
I come close to the perfect democracy		147
I comply with these disorders to give		510
I did not say: The peach blossoms are not as white		305
I do not think a child		7
I Drive a Hearse		484
I drive a hearse, a black limousine.		484
I fixed my house grandest on the Aventine,		474
I fly the flag of the black dog:		486
I gave my friend a lovely naked woman		351
I got up a little after daybreak:		224
I had just written “good and evil, each		341
I have a Baroque painting—a martyr, Saint Simon,		520
I Have Come to Jerusalem		309
I have come to Jerusalem		309
I have had enough of Gods		515
I have not used my darkness well,		545
I have protected the flame of a match		404
I have watched my queen’s tricks and when the feasts are over		473
I hear a Te Deum of... “Who are you to think...		392
I hear the panda’s song,		493
I hold this living coldness,		468
I knew that tree was my lost brother		329
I know my love of “whys?” is a faithless sin.		86
I know the morning thaw scrawled something;		544
I know the story of a tree:		539
I leap high as I can for joy, higher than you think I can.		339
I often write in my diary the obsolete poem of self		61
I owe a debt to the night,		436
I owe much to my distant relative		256
I pass a half-naked child		400
I played soldier as a child.		17
I put on my Mosaic horns, a pointed beard,		324
I remember her first as a swimmer:		374
I said we don’t know what your 63-year-old		128
I said, “Nothing for the last time.”		206
I salute a word, I stand up and give it my chair,		24
I saw a virgin who did not want to be		372
I saw the serpent in the garden		180
I say, to be silly,		253
I see America sitting at Trump’s table,		46
I see pain all over the place, visible as sunshine		88
I see summer where the winter was,		35
I Sit Much with My Dog		125
I take my hat off to St. Francis		236
I take no pleasure in saying		120
I teach my friend, a fisherman gone blind, to cast		198
I was not Eros with a limp, or sleepwalking,		335
I was pleased to see a one-hundred-year-old oak		219
I was scribbling, “Goya painted with a spoon” when I heard Jane died,		111
I was shocked the other day to discover		18
I was startled, not like a lion or a fawn,		16
I will my collection of hats,		466
I wish I had a room with a bed, a flower pot, and a windowsill.		565
“I wish I was two dogs, then I could play with me.”		164
I wish the praying wind would hire me		227
I woke at sunrise,		100
I wonder how my life might twine and untwine		92
I’ll Be Back To You		243
I’ll be back to you very, very soon, English.		243
I’ll fatten her on steamy mutton cooked in peasant wine		472
I’ll take her to the hill		83
I’m two minutes early.		537
I’ve been spit at, marching for a cause.		166
I’ve been taught my daily lesson,		462
I’ve forgotten the book, the poet,		386
I’ve heard the red deer of Eastern Europe		72
Idling		30
If I could I’d gorge on Time, twirl hours on my fork		215
If I gave up the camera		508
If I held a rope in my mouth,		118
If life were just, for strangling her two-year-old child		134
If the sun is money, as you say,		303
If the table and chandelier		248
If Walt Whitman were alive and young and still living in Brooklyn,		291
Ill-mannered, it might have been a death,		119
In a dream after he died		226
In a museum forty years after it happened		323
In a room overlooking Jerusalem,		315
In a world where you are asleep with your fathers,		334
In an empty house I’m trying to sing a high F,		79
In bear country, in a daydream,		421
In beautiful Russian, Mandelstam wrote		27
In Canada, on a dark afternoon,		426
In Defense of a Friend		408
In fresh snow that fell on old snow		10
In Front of a Poster of Garibaldi		396
In late September on a school day		490
In my family the identical twin sisters		203
In our graves we become		262
In our new society, all the old religious orders and titles		99
In spring a woman can run from love,		569
In the great bronze tub of summer,		194
In the great iron pot of the universe		302
In the homelessness of the country		460
In the house of the hangman		485
In the Rain		196
In the sideview mirror of my car		212
In this country I planted not one seed,		449
In writing, he moved from the word I,		431
ISIS		48
It Came Down to This		348
It is 2 AM. I need to rest, sleep.		142
It is summer in my apartment, like last summer,		519
It makes no difference if friends and family		104
It means little to me now when I am rusting away		267
It never snows, but snow is on the mountain top		542
It took me some seconds as I drove toward		504
It was a little like what I feel now		107
It was a shock for me to realize		182
It was justice to see her nude haunches		487
It was not a dream: a poet		322
It wasn’t all smell of Adirondack lilac		22
It’s Monday, I phone. You answer, coughing, whisper:		108
J
Jane’s Grandmother		492
Jerusalem Wedding		110
Jerusalem: Easter, Passover		310
Judas		300
July 4		63
Jump into Ophelia’s grave if you think		566
June 21st		353
4.Just Like That		6
Just out of diapers, I am a giant		41
Just when I think I am about to be tilted		353
K
Kangaroo		522
Krill		410
L
Lady of Turquoise		570
Lady of turquoise I believe		570
Last Meow		181
Lenin, Gorky and I		527
Letter to a Fish		116
Letter to a Poet		94
Letter to Alexander Fu, Seven Years Old		379
Letter to an Unknown		375
Letter to Dannie Abse		106
Letter to Laren		36
Letter to Noah		429
Letter to the Butterflies		32
Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet		419
Listening to Water		223
Long after dark		521
Lord of Crops, Prince of Cereals, Queen of Coffee and Milk		345
Lost Daughter		404
Lost in the library of Alexandria, proof		135
Lost Poem		480
Lost summers and winters ago		20
Lot’s Daughter		506
Lot’s Son		507
Love is Confined		566
Love passes through us as light through a window,		558
Love’s Edge		519
Lovers of birthdays,		165
Lowell		409
Lullaby		392
Lunatic solatic,		93
M
Man’s Wife		569
Maria, sister,		346
May 19th, a sleepless night,		159
May these words serve as a crescent moon:		133
Mecox Bay		483
Mind		140
Mirror, mirror on the wall,		261
Mocking Gods		135
Mon Père, Elegy for Paul Celan		415
Monday		152
Morning		509
Most of my life Celia has made me laugh.		518
Mr. Trouble		158
Munich 2010		219
My best customer was Mark Rothko,		39
My dear friends		38
My face leans to touch		538
My father made a synagogue of a boat.		489
My first dream came with a gift of What?		84
My Good Old Shirt		169
My mother near her death		438
My Mother’s Memorial Day		159
My Old Car		20
My scarred tongue has been everywhere		229
My school saw the Red Sea parted—you speak		117
My sister Lillian was a Unitarian.		98
My sister was a Unitarian,		96
My son carries my ghost on his shoulder, a falcon,		298
My soul climbs up my legs,		522
My surgeon went harrowing like Christ in Hell,		342
My voice has been imprisoned		535
N
Near her 104th year, light as a sparrow		492
Near Machpelah/Hebron		322
New Born		49
New Moon		428
New York Song		461
News reached Helios the Sun God,		354
Nicky		452
Night Flight		29
Night in the Country		460
Nightingale		190
No moon is as precisely round as the surgeon’s light		288
No Tear Is Commonplace		132
No tear is commonplace.		132
No wrestling with an angel,		200
Not myth, not document or hymn,		390
Nothing I say will change anything.		141
Notices		134
Now		137
Now I’ve stubbed and broken my big left toe.		210
Now it’s so quiet I can hear a dog		530
Now that you are looking over the edge of the world,		377
Now the earth has been still for many days,		568
Now there are four rivers: once there were five,		307
6. Number One		8
O
O who shall show me such suffering?		126
Off Montauk speedway I watch a swan		501
Off to the Fair		531
Old		523
Older, I gamble with one die,		150
On a bright winter morning		483
On a red banner across the center of a cave house		384
On artichoke and wine she chose to sup,		532
On Bees Disappearing in America and Europe but Not in Britain		230
On Crossing the Atlantic		553
On Seeing an X-Ray of My Head		445
On the Bible you translated I solemnly swear		43
On the grapes and oranges you gave me on a white plate: worry,		313
On the Occasion of Stanley Kauffmann’s Fiftieth Birthday		518
On the way to visit a friend, a physician,		461
On Trying To Remember Two Chinese Poems		386
On William Blake’s Drawing, “The Ghost of a Flea”		237
Once an Irishman in his coffin		134
Once I took a yellow cab up Jew mountain		454
Once I was jealous of lovers.		525
One by one I lit the candles of nothingness,		418
One thought, you and I are cut as if by broken glass!		556
Onlyness		254
Over Drinks		242
Ovidian Follies		354
P
Pacemaker		120
Panda Song		493
Paper Swallow		69
Parable of the Book-Man		67
Parable of the Porcupine		65
Pax Poetica		68
Peace		259
Peace for this poor earth; this plant, bloom		564
Peace Talk		564
Perhaps the players chose to wear something		325
1. Phaeton		354
Photography Isn’t Art		508
Pilgrim Questions		45
Piss		41
Playing Soldier		17
Please		235
Please may be a town in Oklahoma,		235
Plumage		501
Poem		38
Poem Before Marriage		494
Poem of the Pillow		114
Poets at Lunch		206
Poets, step carefully, your foot, eye, ear, love		140
Pollen		89
Pope Pius XII Announced He was Visited by Christ on his Sickbed		362
Post-Surgery Song		342
Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena		388
Potato Song		496
Praise		320
Prayer		517
Prayer for Zero Mostel		499
Prophecy I		364
Prophecy II		469
Psalm		146
Pushing up through a hole in the red marble floor of heaven		332
R
Rainbows and Circumcision		308
Ransom		287
Reading Half-Awake		31
Rejoicing		189
Requiem		208
Return from Selling		510
Return to Rome		470
Revenge Comedy		81
Review		176
Ridiculous		5
Roethke’s Pajamas		491
Rolling Out of Bed		557
Romance		335
Rope		118
Rothko		39
Running out of time,		81
Ruse		440
S
Sailing from the United States		449
Sand		229
Satyr Song		263
Scarecrow		502
Scroll		521
2. Second Choice		4
Seems		77
Señor, already someone else,		499
Señor, make me a stranger to myself.		205
September 11th: A Fable		337
September 27th and 28th, two dark rainy days.		161
September, I just want to pass a pleasant day		152
September Evening		490
Seventh child		255
Seventh Child		255
She danced into the moonless winter,		452
She felt ashamed. She was only a poor woman		389
She gave me the gift of my own desire;		451
She lies naked, five days old,		380
She remembered her dad’s kissing-her-everywhere game,		231
Shit		462
Shoes		405
Should anyone care, I love those red fields		500
Sign on the Road		497
Signifier		119
Silence		170
Since they were morose in August,		516
Sister Poem		96
Sleep		234
Sleepless,		29
Slip of the Pen		28
SM		25
Smiles		139
Snot		465
Snow clouds shadow the bay, on the ice the odd fallen gull.		320
Snowbound		118
So if God made us in His image		228
Some Flowers		334
Some of the self-containment of my old face		382
Some of us choose to disappear,		6
Someone is playing tricks on flowers and blossoming trees;		230
Something early in him		563
Sometimes I would see her with her lovers		260
Song for a Lost River		307
Song for Concertina		529
Song for Stanley Kunitz		406
Song of Alphabets		192
Song of an Imaginary Arab		294
Song of Barbed Wire		72
Song of Imperfection		340
Song of Introduction		413
Song of Jerusalem Neighbors		129
Song of No God		214
Space Poem		252
Spit		166
Spoon		111
Spring Morning		55
Spring Poem for Christopher Middleton		108
Squall		545
Squeezing the Lemon		248
Stations		400
Still, near Santa Maria in Trastevere,		89
Stowaway		365
Stuck in my suburban flesh and marrow,		131
Subway Token		291
Surrounded by a great Chinese wall of love,		376
Sweet Questions		495
T
Teacher of reading, of “you will not” and “you shall,”		38
Tears		177
Tell Me Pretty Maiden		200
Thank you for the clover that bloomed today		63
Thanksgiving		40
That boy who made the earth and stars had to learn		102
That Morning		224
That night in Florence,		328
That tree was a teacher, whatever the weather—		330
That winter when Lenin, Gorky and I		527
The Inheritance		426
The Altar		418
The American Dream		131
The ashes and dust are laughing, swaddled,		448
The Atlantic a mile away is flat.		497
The Auction		29
The Bathers		194
The Battle		411
The Birds of Aristophanes taught me		524
The Black Maple		349
The Blanket		367
The Branch		539
The Carpenter		102
The Celestial Fox		297
The Cellist		292
The day is a lion across the horizon,		242
The dead poet,		110
The Debt		436
The Decadent Poets of Kyoto		441
The earth needs peace more than it needs the moon,		68
The Falcon		298
The Family		346
The Film Critic Imaginaire		344
The first days of April in the fields—		310
The first thing I did against my will is see light.		49
The Fish Answers		117
The Gambler		150
The Garden		516
The Gentle Things		515
The Geographer		434
The Giant Bathers		232
The Gift		451
The goddess Dawn seized me as a boy,		9
The Good Shepherd		293
The Good Things		503
The Grammarian		253
The Hangman’s Love Song		485
The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud		431
The hope of our lives is life to speak;		552
The Hudson River		249
The Icehouse and the Pond		216
The Lace Makers		432
The Last Judgment		332
The Lesson of the Birds		524
The Longest Journey		560
The Lord Is Mistaken		26
The Lost Brother		329
The Louse		315
The Man Tree		211
The man who never prays		367
The man who walks through a field in December		211
The Meeting		504
The Messiah Comes to Venice		247
The mind is a family, dreams are father and mother.		42
The Miscarriage		424
The mouth on his forehead is stitched and smiling,		296
The nightingale never repeats its song,		190
The only animal that cries real tears,		65
The park benches, of course, are ex-Nazis.		422
The Peddler		453
The Perfect Democracy		147
The piano has crawled into the quarry. Hauled		512
The Poem of Self		61
The Poet		373
The Poor of Venice		430
The poor of Venice know the gold mosaic		430
The Public Gardens of Munich		422
The Red Fields		500
The red fisherman		410
The Return		487
The Ring in my Nose		202
The Scholar		544
The Seagull		184
The Ships Go Nowhere		558
The Startling		327
The stomach and the heart can be torn		463
The survivors have something in common—		488
The Swimmer		374
The Table		50
The Thing Written		12
The thing written is a sexual thing,		12
The trade of war is over, there are no more battles,		259
The truth is I don’t know the days of the week.		161
The turtles are out,		523
The Unicorn		245
The Valley		525
The Wanton Voyager		565
The Wild Dogs of San Miguel de Allende		244
Their last pages are transparent: The lace makers		432
Their poetry is remembered for a detailed calligraphy		441
Then		262
There are diminishing unshakeable effects,		8
There are principles I would die for,		196
There is a woman in all living things, a lily.		202
There is no physicist no lyricist blood.		513
There was a risk, a dividing of waters,		398
There’s wondering, idle thoughts,		30
These days I doze off, sleep longer.		234
They come to mind, not of my choosing,		140
They say my old friend is “a good man with a worm in him.”		408
This face without race or religion		445
This morning I’m part me, part anything.		75
This morning, the merry-go-round		53
This plain of sighs has known the whole concourse		553
This red oak table has no memory.		50
Thou fool! Three score and six years ago,		168
Three in his arms we sleep, Lot lies awake		507
Three Songs for a Single String		227
Three years ago, dying, in pain,		172
Tightrope walkers know		138
Tightrope Walking		138
Time has appetite		480
Time take me now, I begin with prisons,		557
Time's Bones		55
To a Stranger		205
To Alexander Fu on His Beginning and 13th Birthday		162
To Alexander Who Wants to Be a Cosmologist		161
To Angelina, Alexander’s Cousin, Whose Chinese Name Means Happiness		380
To Ariel, My Arabist Friend		323
To idle without direction is best,		78
To My Friend Born Blind		290
To My Son's Wife On Her Wedding Day		399
Today I am Saddam Hussein’s U.S. Army Dentist.		338
Today I saw proof in the dusty theater		258
Today I walked along the vaulted hall		388
Today in Rome, heading down		470
Today, flying from Munich to Rome,		257
Today, my Italian-American electrician		51
Travels, Barcelona		454
Trees and flowers elbow their neighbors		170
Trump		46
Tsunami Song		304
Two Arias		79
Two beautiful women in the sky kissing,		241
Two Fishermen		489
Two Haystacks		567
Two Minutes Early		537
Two Riders		511
U
Ubuntu		24
Under the sun,		567
Unfallen		53
Universe after universe opens outward		252
Until the rain takes over my life I’ll never change,		385
Until they killed my brother who killed you,		294
Usually I wake		509
V
Vanitas		212
Visiting Star		100
Visiting the Egyptian Rooms of the Louvre		561
Voice		535
Vomit		463
W
Walking		481
Waltz		168
War Ballad		512
Water wanted to live.		223
We are made to look ridiculous.		5
We know at ninety sometimes it aches to sing		352
We know only our actions and our sleep		549
We never made love, but still I believe		94
Wedding Invitation		339
Wedding Poem, Alas		38
Wet Paint		51
What		84
What are they but cattle, these butterflies,		306
What did I do? What wives do. But no wives		506
What if you don’t have money in your hand,		45
What is heaven but the history of color,		281
What proves I am not your enemy?		129
What sweet company they were for an hour or night.		197
Whatever the season		158
When he was a child, he thought of sea birds as Muslim,		419
When I saw the Greek hunter		327
When I see Arabic headlines		192
When I was a child, before I knew the word for love		184
When I was five I loved climbing a granite boulder,		121
When I write at home my dog is not far off.		125
When my Italian son		396
When Yahweh spoke to me, when I saw His name		411
When you said you wanted to be useful		301
Where are the birthday poems		336
Where is the Bridegroom?		541
Where is the green, the revolutionary?		491
Who Are You?		513
Whom can I tell? Who cares?		340
Why		86
Why does she pick only the smallest wildflowers?		495
Wildflowers		197
Winter		93
Winter Flowers		10
Winter in Vermont		491
Winter. The ice slept here, the father ice		216
With any luck you can still find a rain god		214
With spray can paint,		25
Without ambition, I’ve stolen the world.		37
Woodhaven		18
Work Song		316
Working class clouds are living together		456
Y
Years are numbered, as if they were the same,		115
You and I		412
You are a viola		44
You are Jehovah, and I am a wanderer.		412
You asked me how I would kill time		232
You caterpillars, who want to eat		337
You cherished your silent beautiful cello		292
You could only be in Italy;		540
You gave me Jerusalem marble,		314
You had almost no time, you were something		424
You know nothing, not your mother or father.		469
You lie in my arms,		458
You say, “Let time’s bones be broken.”		55
You told me your blindness is not seeing		290
You wrote I appeared in your dream last night in Granada.		36
You, a goiter on my neck, lick my ear with lies.		403
Your Onlyness, your first commandment was:		254