| Abortion | 139 |
| A Butterfly With Child | 145 |
| A Charming Story | 133 |
| A Cup of Tea | 146 |
| A Fable: Christ’s Eagle Fathered Eagles | 162 |
| After Receiving a Letter | 103 |
| Alexander’s First Battle | 24 |
| Alexander Fu | 24 |
| Alexander Fu Musing | 25 |
| Alexander Fu to Stanley | 26 |
| A Little Afternoon Music | 179 |
| Another Birthday Poem, Written When Angel Was Almost a Day Older | 128 |
| A Prayer to No God for Ilhan Comak | 122 |
| April, Beijing | 18 |
| A Rum Cocktail | 112 |
| A Scream | 141 |
| A Show | 127 |
| A Smiling Understanding | 99 |
| Barbershop Conversation | 160 |
| Beauty is Not Easy | 79 |
| Cake Mistake | 118 |
| China Poem | 44 |
| Chinese Prayer | 20 |
| Clams | 73 |
| Clouds | 87 |
| Contra Goya | 111 |
| Delmore Schwartz | 85 |
| Detour | 177 |
| Disappearance | 124 |
| Dog Sonnet | 101 |
| Eye | 137 |
| Fact Song | 174 |
| For Margaret | 50 |
| For my Godmother, Twenty Years Later | 89 |
| Frog | 76 |
| Gods of Snow, It’s Been Snowing All Day | 149 |
| Haiku | 179 |
| Happy 55th Birthday to Angel, From Stanley | 126 |
| Hermaphrodites in the Garden | 59 |
| I Don’t Celebrate the Body Today | 153 |
| I Don’t Trust Alarm Clocks | 135 |
| If Someone Makes Love Anywhere on Earth | 175 |
| I Miss Naomi Étienne | 105 |
| I’m Sorry | 106 |
| In The Swim | 67 |
| In Zigong, Salt City of China | 38 |
| I Praise Scientists | 161 |
| I Speak While Others Sleep | 157 |
| I Write to be Read Out Loud | 104 |
| Krill | 74 |
| Letter to Alexander Fu, Seven Years Old | 27 |
| Letter to an Unknown | 23 |
| Little Song | 170 |
| Listening to Water | 72 |
| Looney Tune | 107 |
| Lost Daughter | 78 |
| Loushan Pass by Mao Zedong | 39 |
| Loushan Pass Translation by Willis Barnstone | 40 |
| March 21st, First Day of Spring | 90 |
| My Heart’s Cousin | 142 |
| My History of Laughter | 92 |
| Murder | 41 |
| Nicky | 53 |
| Not Yet | 98 |
| Numbers | 143 |
| Ode to Opposites | 165 |
| On Trying to Remember Two Chinese Poems | 21 |
| Pax Poetica | 91 |
| Peace | 75 |
| Prayer | 82 |
| Preface | 13 |
| Preface II | 173 |
| Recalling the Past that We Have Been in Heaven and Hell | 188 |
| Reflections | 147 |
| Sleep | 70 |
| Some Words for T.R. Hummer | 119 |
| Song of Alphabets | 83 |
| Song of Imperfection | 56 |
| Spoon | 62 |
| Spring 2021 | 167 |
| Squall | 71 |
| Thanksgiving 2020 | 33 |
| The Bathers | 54 |
| The Debt | 65 |
| The Decadent Poets of Kyoto | 48 |
| The Ferryman | 151 |
| The Grammarian | 89 |
| the great god IS | 181 |
| The Hawk, the Serpent, and the Cloud | 17 |
| The Inconsequential, A Paper Napkin | 113 |
| The Legend of Self 2021 | 115 |
| The Lost Brother | 52 |
| The Meeting | 71 |
| The Poem of the Pillow | 46 |
| There is Secret Meaning in Rhymes | 110 |
| The Swimmer | 60 |
| They Plow Their Father’s Field | 88 |
| To Alexander Fu on His 18th Birthday | 31 |
| To Alexander Fu on His Beginning and 13th Birthday | 29 |
| To Alexander, Who Wanted to be a Cosmologist | 30 |
| To Angelina, Whose Chinese Name Means Happiness | 28 |
| Today I Play Ring Around the Rosie | 158 |
| Today is Yesterday, Tomorrow and Now | 100 |
| Trick | 144 |
| Truth or Consequences | 130 |
| Vanitas | 77 |
| Visiting Star | 86 |
| Walking | 80 |
| When I Played a Buddhist Priest, Etc. | 57 |
| Whim | 121 |
| Year | 171 |
| Year of the Monkey | 37 |
| Year of the Rooster | 35 |
| Zoopie | 140 |