Contents
Introduction
PHILIP APPLEMAN
Westhampton Cemetery
The Tennis Player Waits for What Waits for the Tennis Player
Red Kite
East Hampton: The Structure of Sound
JANE AUGUSTINE
Anti-Cycle for the New Year
The Stars
GEORGE BRADLEY
Walking Sag Beach
Six of One
EDWARD BUTSCHER
After Great Pain
At Play in the Field
Middle Age Summer
Hand Lane: Literature
Cleaning the Garage
MARYANN CALENDRILLE
Black Mail
In the Big Country Dreams Stay Alive
See Jane Run
Tomorrow in a Bubble
New Moon, or No?
SIV CEDERING
On This Shore
On Some Such Morning
Sea Drift
Fata Morgana
GRAHAM EVERETT
Pulling the Days Together
Early May
Day/Night
Near Thanksgiving
January
Families at the Shore
Here
BARBARA GUEST
Clouds Near the Windmill
Sag Harbor, the Tchekov Letters
Lawn Bumps
Hohenzollern
from Wave (ii and iii)
MICHAEL HELLER
At Albert’s Landing
On the Beach
Two Swans in a Meadow by the Sea
Coral Stanzas
DAVID IGNATOW
A Cloud Creates
Behind His Eyes
My Own House
from Leaving the Door Open: #1
#31
Respected Graves
Autumn
Little Friend
YAEDI IGNATOW
The Offer
Blackout into Sunlight
Equations
Forest
Limbo
Praise
KENNETH KOCH
The Boiling Water
Fate
NAOMI LAZARD
Walking with Lulu in the Wood
Stray Dogs
Stepping Out with My Big Cats
The Angels Among Us
HOWARD MOSS
The Long Island Night
Bay Days
In Traffic
Notes from the Castle
Aspects of Lilac
STANLEY MOSS
Homing
Clouds
Potato Song
Clams
The Seagull
The Meeting
The Branch
DAN MURRAY
June
July
August
Theory
Passamaquoddy Sunrise
Constellation: Rorschach
ANSELM PARLATORE
Mecox Motel
Mecox Nunnery & Saint Dominic
Woman of the Late Fall Run
Portrait in Veiled Waters
SIMON PERCHIK
“The pale stone …”
“Like a warden …”
“I should wear gloves …”
“The mirror …”
ALLEN PLANZ
Woodknot
Mako
Scalloping Northwest
Midwinter
Inquiline
ANNE PORTER
In a Country Hospital
Leavetaking
On the Three Hour Train Ride
Four Poems in One
FAIRFIELD PORTER
The Reader
The Morning Train
September
At Night
A Painter Obsessed by Blue
GRACE SCHULMAN
Blessed is the Light
Easy as Wind
The Marsh
The Swans
Images of Gravity
The Island
Songs of Our Cells
JAMES SCHUYLER
Empathy and New Year
Poem
In January
The sky eats up the trees
ARMAND SCHWERNER
Tablet IX
Tablet XXIII
Tablet XXV
HUGH SEIDMAN
Eurydice
Albert’s Landing
O Tree
The Immortal
HARVEY SHAPIRO
At the Shore
July
Battlements
Riding Westward
Montauk Highway
The Bridge
R. B. WEBER
Peconic Autumn Day
November. Over the Hills
late autumn afternoons
Weathers
ocean beach house
Behind these lids
August dusk: Sag Harbor
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments