Contents

ANTS ON THE MELON

Key Ring

Summary by the Pawns

Asbury Park, 1915

Fordham Road, 1917

The Grandmothers

Early Walk

The Shell

The April Lovers

Railway Tempo

Musical Moment

An Hour to Dance

Drowned Girl

Cor Urbis

The Dark Hole

The Survivors

Ants on the Melon

BY OLD MAPS

Yorktown Ferry

Buckroe, After the Season, 1942

By Old Maps

Narrow Gauge

LAX-Gatwick

Return

Grasmere Journal

Americans in Bloomsbury

English Visit

Nocturne

Windmill Time

In Dublin’s Fair City, 1963

Reunion Between Planes

Now You Need Me

Blackened Rings

DRIVING WESTWARD

The Trek

Laguna in September

Surfers

Winter Zendo

Riding a Koan

Light in Wrightwood

Driving Westward

Godstone

Mojave Evening

Abandoned Anthill

Two of Us

Yea, Though I Walk

Second Coming

Sonoran Cattle

Withdrawal

THE GENESIS STRAIN

The Genesis Strain

God to the Serpent

TV Brideshead Revisited

Cutting the Cake

Child as Deity

The Wedding Frame

Home Notes

Pity Ulysses

Too Small for Words

In Nomine

Corona Fidei

Now We Lay Us

Strange Frequency

EXIT AMOR

Where Did I Leave Off?

Peeling an Orange

Blueberry City

By the Waters

Firewind

One Ordinary Evening

Dark Lines

The Ruin

Exit Amor

The Year After

Coronach

A Last Marriage

Two Sides of the Coin

Fair Warning

Midstairs

MAKE LIGHT OF DARKNESS

Return to Madison

Red Camellias

For Scholar-Poets R.M. and R.G.B.

John Berryman’s Winter Landscape

Shirley

Lorna

Pilot

Dover

Slow Scythe

Strings

Break In

White Darkness

Take My Hand, Anna K.

AFTERWORD