CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Publication History

Introduction by Jay Parini

SLIDING DOWN THE WIND (1978)

Down on the Beach

Over the Atlantic

Oh, Stand Quietly in Salt Water

Land of My Fathers

New Hampshire Summer Sunday

Yesterdays Touchdown

Saturdays Black Hole

THE HAWK’S DREAM (1982)

Travel in My Borrowed Lives

The Hawk’s Dream

Appointment in Samarra

Land of Dixieland

Saturday Night on the Desert, March 1938

“Mountain that was God”

AGAINST GRAVITY (1986)

Impossible Tasks

Forgetting Jesse Carpenter

Late Monday Afternoon, Just Before the Rain

THE COLORS OF INFINITY (1990)

A Father Remembered

Death of the Son

The Bull Comes to Pamplona

The Colors of Infinity

Birth of Quasars

THE LATEST ILLUSION (1995)

A Miniature Life

Electrons and Beaver Ponds

Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Rear Admiral, U.S.N. —Imagined, from His Diary

George “Ace” Alligator (Mississippiensis), Now Residing in Florida

This Is What You Get

Tracks of the Father, Tracks of the Son

This Way to Morning

This One Aspect

CHANGE AS A CURVED EQUATION (2002)

Change as a Curved Equation

The Way Forward, the Way Back

Until He Asked Me

Mathematics for a Rainy Morning

WALKING THROUGH THE NIGHT (2006)

Walking Through the Night

Elegy for Bob Johnson

Discover the Air

NEW POEMS (2008)

I Will Lie Down by an Honest Stream

The Seasons, Northern Hemisphere

First the Clowns

There Is More to Tell

How Carefully I Study Her Sleep

A Certain Truth

Signs and Signals

College Reunion

Bare Essentials

Flight to Middlebury in a Boeing Biplane

Old Man Greets a Small Boy

January Daybreak on Long Island Sound

Atiantic Sky 33,000 Feet on Delta #73,

Istanbul to JFK

Across the Grand Canyon at 39,000 Feet

Day of the Maccabees, Masada, 164 B.C.E

Portovenere (“Sinum Spedia”)

Countries We Choose to Visit

The Tide on St. Simon’s

Nevada Through a Jet Window

Song of the Sioux

Pilot After Flying Through a Storm

Fixed Relationships