CONTENTS

IOWA, JANUARY

AFTER TRAKL

ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE’S POEMS

A SUPPLE WREATH OF MYRTLE

FUTURES IN LILACS

THREE DAWN SONGS IN SUMMER

THE DISTRIBUTION OF HAPPINESS

ETYMOLOGY

THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING COLOR

THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES

WINGED AND ACID DARK

A SWARM OF DAWNS, A FLOCK OF RESTLESS NOONS

BREACH AND ORISON

THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION

AFTER THE WINDS

FOR CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ IN KRAKÓW

TIME AND MATERIALS

ART AND LIFE

DOMESTIC INTERIORS

TWIN DOLPHINS

THEN TIME

THAT MUSIC

CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ: IN MEMORIAM

HORACE: THREE IMITATIONS

TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER: SONG

STATE OF THE PLANET

POEM WITH A CUCUMBER IN IT

DRIFT AND VAPOR (SURF FAINTLY)

“…WHITE OF FORGETFULNESS, WHITE OF SAFETY”

AFTER GOETHE

I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DMITRI

A POEM

BUSH’S WAR

PEARS

THE DRY MOUNTAIN AIR

FIRST THINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE

POET’S WORK

MOUTH SLIGHTLY OPEN

OLD MOVIE WITH THE SOUND TURNED OFF

EZRA POUND’S PROPOSITION

ON VISITING THE DMZ AT PANMUNJOM: A HAIBUN

CONSCIOUSNESS

EXIT, PURSUED BY A SIERRA MEADOW

SEPTEMBER, INVERNESS



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