CONTENTS
Giving the Day Its Due, by Samuel Menashe
The Poets on Samuel Menashe
Introduction
THE POEMS
Voyage
Sheen
O Many Named Beloved
A-
Roads run forever
Autumn
November
All my friends are homeless
Winter
The Dead of Winter
Warrior Wisdom
I lie in snows
Between bare boughs
January to July
Downpour
April
Transfusion
The Moment of Your Death
The Bare Tree
Pity us
She who saw the moon last night
Fall
The Host
Grief
Epitaph
Landmark
Still Life
Triptych
Life is immense
Enclosure
In Memoriam
The Offering
Full Fathom Five
Memento Mori
Forever and a Day
Family Plot
The friends of my father
These stone steps
Self Employed
In My Digs
Curriculum Vitae
At a Standstill
The Oracle
Nightfall, Morning
On the Level
Tenement Spring
Windows: Old Widow
Heat Wave
Off the Wall
At Millay’s Grave
Le lac secret
Always
Take any man
Telescoped
Twilight
Enlightenment
Old Mirror
Mirror Image
Pirate
Infant, Old Man
Paradise—After Giovanni di Paolo
Shade
Just Now
Gray Boulder
Adam Means Earth
Leah bribed Jacob
Reeds Rise from Water
Paschal Wilderness
Manna
Stone would be water
Promised Land
If I were as lean as I feel
The Shrine Whose Shape I Am
My angels are dark
As the tall, turbaned
The hill I see
My Mother’s Grave
Dreaming
Hallelujah
The Annunciation
The Abandoned One
O Lady lonely as a stone—
Sparrow
The scrutiny
Rural Sunrise
Sudden Shadow
Awakening from Dreams
The hollow of morning
Norway
I left my seed in a grove so deep
Pagan Poem
Fastness
Landscape
Dusk
Pastoral
Moon Night
Ruins
Old as the Hills
Twilight Blues
In Stride
Night Walk
Petals
Bearings
The room of my friend
Waterfall
A flock of little boats
Eaves at dusk
Star-Crossed
Western Wind
The Sandpiper
On My Birthday
Sketches: By the Sea
Dominion
So they stood
Beachhead
Passive Resistance
Peaceful Purposes
Survival
White hair does not weigh
Walking Stick
To Open
Scissors
I am the hive
Pan’s work is done
Achilles
Lust puffs up
A pot poured out
Spur of the Moment
Simon Says
Using the window ledge
Peace
The Reservoir
Sheep Meadow
Sunset, Central Park
Carnival
All Things That Heal
Night Music
Daily Bread
Ghost at the Wake
Another Song of Sixpence
Infanta
Small Kingdom
Salt and Pepper
Family Silver
Improvidence
Dinner
At Cross Purposes
Fire Dance
Cargo
Transplant
The Living End
Night Watch
Sleep
Dreams
Home Movie
Inklings
What to Expect
The Visitation
Red Glints in Black Hair
A Bronze Head
Anonymous
Eyes
Awakening
Someone Walked Over My Grave
The Niche
Whose Name I Know
The Sprite of Delight
The sea staves
Descent
Commemoration
Skull
Scribe, Condemned
“Make It New”
Diner
R and R
Heat Wave
Apotheosis
The stars are
In the Ring
Rest in Peace
Captain, Captive
Rue
Here
Due soldi di speranza
Autobiography
Biographer
Story Teller
Railroad Flat
Captain, Captive (2007)
Spring Snow
Ensconced
Now
Leavetaking
Index