The Sparrow by A.F. Moritz -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

iiAlso by A. F. Moritz Dedication

xviiWe Decided This Was All

xixPart I

1Thinking About Dreaming 2Like Water 3In Winter 4Here 5The Art of Poetry 6The Uses of the Past 7Shade 9Morning Fragments 11Food for Three Days 12Anniversary in the Private Room 14Ulysses en Route 16Poem 17The Naturalist 19Black Orchid 20The Pauses 22The Wasp 23Stabbing 26Romance 28The Ground 35The Underground 38A Narrow Silent Throat 39Loud Light and Quiet Light 41Dark Man 43A Natural History of Words 45The Owl 47Only Deeper 49The Death of Francisco Franco 57What They Prayed For 58Music and Exile 61Views 63Prayer for Prophecy 64The Beginning 66You, Whoever You Are

81Part II

83The Tradition 85The Explorer 87The Painter 90Lament of a Hunter 91Again 93The Signs 95The Boy 96Days Along the Banks 98Putting Up for the Night 101Pandora’s Box 103Mahler Symphony No. 4 on the Record Player 105Orpheus in Ontario 107Kingdom and Empire 108Petra 110Aeneas 113After Kong 114The Sphinx 117Lucretius in the New World 120Evening 122Something Else Must Come 124April Song of Fear 126Song: Passing a Hospital 127Song of a Traveller 128The Rise and Fall of Envy 129Debate with a Child 130All Is Patience 131Savage 133The Famous Works 135In Puerto Rico 137Song: It Does Not Matter 138Minoan Bull Dancer 139City in the Mountains 140Death of a Sparrow 141Cicada 142The Aeolian Harp 144Puissance Nue 145Beirut 1982 149To His Subject Matter 150Protracted Episode 151June 153Home Again Home Again 155The Stump 156Fruit of Spring 157White City 160April Fool’s Day, Mount Pleasant Cemetery 161City Limits 162Snow in May 163The All-Night Café 165Our Unemployment 166The Worm-Picker 167The Ruined Cottage 169Indifference 171A Postcard from Havana 173The Ducks 174Storm Window: The Moth 176The Tulip 177Conversation with a Widow 179An Old Man 180Christmas Decorations 181Prayer 183I Saw You Exult 184Le Paresseux 185The Traveller 186Morning, Loneliness Died 187Secrecy 189Fresh Grave 190Visit Home 194Kingdom and Leaves 195Centuries Ago 196Founders 198Factory Shell 200Mosquito Creek 202Bonham Woods, Bank of the Mosquito 204Lost Content

207Part III

209What We Loved in You 210And I Should Talk 211So Much You Fear the End of Things 212New Storytellers 214Morning Again 215The General 216Artisan and Clerk 219Science 220The Source 223Egg Noodles 224To His Coy Mistress 225Rest on the Flight into Egypt 228Nothing Happened Here 230That Day 232Untreated Condition 233Kissinger at the Funeral of Nixon 237On Distinction 238Industry 239Early Machines 242Wren House 244Essay on Destination 245Power 246Sympathy for the Gods 248Freedom 249Conflicting Desire 250Snapshot 251The House 252Immediacy 253Eternal 254The Sign 256Uninvited Reader 257Maybe 258Orpheus

261Part IV

263Simile 264Memory of a Friend 266North American Song 267The Helmet 270Five Hundred Cities 272Night of the First Cricket 273Simplicity 275Translator 278Love Song 279The Visitors 284Song 285Singer and Prisoner 289To the Moon 293The Butterfly 295Your Story 296Place 297Better Days 299You That I Loved 300Childish Willow 301What We Had 302Tragic Vision and Beyond 303The Tidal Wave 305The Sentinel 308Cleanliness 309Arrogance 310The Moment 311Sound of Hungry Animals 312Poem of Courtly Love 313The Red Car 314Two Crickets 315Bewilderment 317Her Work 318To the Still Unborn 319The Sun

321Part V

323The Book to Come 324Simplicity 325The Location of the World 326The Snake 328The New Measures 330The Volcano 332Eve 334Voice as Time, World, and Presence 336Farewell to Lake Michigan 337Essential Poem 338The Good Listener 340The Visible Brother 341Painting and Poem 343News 345In the Dead of Night Only 346The Caravan of the Merchants 348An Ancient Man 349The Last Garden 351Under Green Trees Far Away 352An Accidental Structure 353Every Body Broken 354Every Step Was into a New World 357The Last Thing

361Author’s Note and Acknowledgements About the Author About the Publisher

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