Almost Complete Poems by Moss, Stanley -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Title Copyright Acknowledgment Contents MOSTLY NEW POEMS (2016)

Gratitude 1. After Night Fell Down the Abyss 2. Second Choice 3. Ridiculous 4. Just Like That 5. December 21st 6. Number One Dawn Winter Flowers The Thing Written God’s Brother Delmore Schwartz A Visit to the Prado Playing Soldier Woodhaven Battle Epitaph for a Cook My Old Car An American Hero Ubuntu SM The Lord Is Mistaken Evening Song Slip of the Pen Night Flight The Auction Idling Reading Half-Awake Letter to the Butterflies A Purge Without Pity An Old Marriage Letter to Laren Beyond Poem Wedding Poem, Alas Rothko Thanksgiving Piss A Poem for All Occasions A Hoot for Willis Barnstone Duet Pilgrim Questions Trump Fallout New Born The Table Wet Paint Unfallen Spring Morning Time’s Bones A Poem Called Day

IT’S ABOUT TIME (2015) & NO TEAR IS COMMONPLACE (2013) SUNRISE—MORNING

The Poem of Self July 4 Parable of the Porcupine Bright Day Parable of the Book-Man Pax Poetica Paper Swallow Fantasy on a Goya Drawing Song of Barbed Wire Death Is a Dream 56,000-Year Poem Seems A Misfortune Two Arias Revenge Comedy Burial of the Gravedigger’s Daughter What Why

NOON

Elegy for Oliver Sacks Pollen Chrysalis Winter Letter to a Poet Sister Poem Coda A Refreshment Visiting Star The Carpenter Drinking Song Letter to Dannie Abse A Kid in a “Record Crowd” Spring Poem for Christopher Middleton Jerusalem Wedding Spoon Poem of the Pillow Happy 87th Birthday Letter to a Fish The Fish Answers Snowbound Rope Signifier Pacemaker Granite

SUNSET—NIGHT

I Sit Much with My Dog Hell Cautionary Tale Song of Jerusalem Neighbors Affluent Reader The American Dream No Tear Is Commonplace December 8 Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and Her Child Notices Mocking Gods Now Tightrope Walking Smiles A Metaphoric Trap Sprung Mind Christmas 2014 2 AM Fathers Psalm The Perfect Democracy The Gambler Monday

ECLIPSE

A Rose Album Mr. Trouble My Mother’s Memorial Day Alexander Fu Musing To Alexander Who Wants to Be a Cosmologist To Alexander Fu on His Beginning and 13th Birthday A Red Envelope Children’s Song Birthday Wishes Spit Waltz My Good Old Shirt Silence Elegy for Elia Gardens and Unpunctuated Poetry Review Tears For Good Measure A Walk Last Meow 9 Chocolates The Seagull

GOD BREAKETH NOT ALL MEN’S HEARTS ALIKE (2011) & REJOICING (2009)

Rejoicing Nightingale Song of Alphabets The Bathers In the Rain Wildflowers A Blind Fisherman Dangerous Game Tell Me Pretty Maiden The Ring in My Nose Godmothers Bone To a Stranger Poets at Lunch Requiem Big Left Toe The Man Tree Vanitas Bad Joke Song of No God Glutton The Icehouse and the Pond Munich 2010 Dogs Listening to Water That Morning Autumn Three Songs for a Single String And There are African Links/Licks in Every Language Sand On Bees Disappearing in America and Europe but Not in Britain Down River The Giant Bathers Cruelty and Love Sleep Please A Wolf’s Song On William Blake’s Drawing, “The Ghost of a Flea” A Glance at Turner Capriccio Clouds Over Drinks I’ll Be Back To You The Wild Dogs of San Miguel de Allende The Unicorn For My Godmother, Twenty Years Later The Messiah Comes to Venice Squeezing the Lemon The Hudson River Anatomy Lessons February Space Poem The Grammarian Onlyness Seventh Child Eye For Georgie Chorus Peace Anonymous Poet Hotel Room Birthday Party, Florence Then Satyr Song A Satyr’s Complaint Diary of a Satyr

A HISTORY OF COLOR (2003)

A History of Color Ransom Heart Work To My Friend Born Blind Subway Token The Cellist The Good Shepherd Song of an Imaginary Arab A Fall The Celestial Fox The Falcon Judas An Argument with My Wife Grace El Sol Tsunami Song China Song Beauty is Not Easy Song for a Lost River Rainbows and Circumcision I Have Come to Jerusalem Jerusalem: Easter, Passover A Guest in Jerusalem Exchange of Gifts The Louse Work Song Babies Praise Near Machpelah/Hebron To Ariel, My Arabist Friend A Visit to the Devil’s Museum in Kaunas Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941 Chinese Prayer The Startling A Riff for Sidney Bechet The Lost Brother Elegy for A 5,000-Year-Old Tree The Last Judgment Some Flowers Romance 2002, Alas September 11th: A Fable A Dentist Wedding Invitation Song of Imperfection Good News Song Post-Surgery Song Hot News, Stale News The Film Critic Imaginaire Facing the Red Sea The Family It Came Down to This The Black Maple Dark Clouds How I Got Ted Roethke’s Raccoon-Skin Coat For Virginia on her 90th Birthday June 21st Ovidian Follies 1. Phaeton 2. Criton Pope Pius XII Announced He was Visited by Christ on his Sickbed Prophecy I Stowaway Hermaphrodites in the Garden The Blanket

ASLEEP IN THE GARDEN (1998) & THE INTELLIGENCE OF CLOUDS (1989)

Hannibal Crossing the Alps Annunciation The Poet The Swimmer Letter to an Unknown Alexander Fu Alexander’s First Battle Alexander Fu to Stanley Letter to Alexander Fu, Seven Years Old To Angelina, Alexander’s Cousin, Whose Chinese Name Means Happiness April, Beijing China Poem Dog On Trying To Remember Two Chinese Poems Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena A Poor Woman Allegory of the Laughing Philosopher Lullaby Centaur Song A Visit to The Island of Jamaica In Front of a Poster of Garibaldi A Gambler’s Story To My Son’s Wife on Her Wedding Day Stations Allegory of Smell Allegory of Evil in Italy Lost Daughter Shoes Song for Stanley Kunitz In Defense of a Friend Lowell Krill The Battle You and I Song of Introduction Mon Père, Elegy for Paul Celan The Altar Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet Daydream The Public Gardens of Munich The Miscarriage The Inheritance New Moon Letter to Noah The Poor of Venice The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud The Lace Makers The Geographer The Debt For Margaret Ruse The Decadent Poets of Kyoto Following the Saints

SKULL OF ADAM (1979) & THE WRONG ANGEL (1966)

On Seeing an X-Ray of My Head God Poem Elegy for Myself Sailing from the United States And Now There Is No Place to Look The Gift Nicky The Peddler Travels, Barcelona Cloud Song Apocrypha Night in the Country New York Song Shit Vomit Snot An Exchange of Hats 466 Frog 468 Prophecy II 469 Along the Tiber: A Commentary on Antony and Cleopatra (1956–2002) Backstage Clown Lost Poem Walking Mecox Bay I Drive a Hearse The Hangman’s Love Song Dulcie The Return A Valentine’s Day Sketch of Negro Slaves, Jews in Concentration Camps, and Unhappy Lovers Two Fishermen September Evening Roethke’s Pajamas Winter in Vermont Jane’s Grandmother Panda Song Poem Before Marriage Sweet Questions Potato Song Sign on the Road Prayer for Zero Mostel The Red Fields Plumage Scarecrow The Good Things The Meeting Clams Lot’s Daughter Lot’s Son Photography Isn’t Art Morning Return from Selling Two Riders War Ballad Who Are You? The Gentle Things The Garden Prayer Celia, a Ditty On the Occasion of Stanley Kauffmann’s Fiftieth Birthday Love’s Edge For Uncle Lem Scroll Kangaroo Old The Lesson of the Birds The Valley For James Wright Lenin, Gorky and I Song for Concertina Communiqué from an Army Deserter, Probably Italian Off to the Fair An English Defeat Fact Song Voice Che Guevara Two Minutes Early Before the Fire The Branch Castello Sermoneta A Dead Nun’s Complaint After the Dance Death of a Spanish Child The Scholar Squall

SKIPPED-OVER EARLY POEMS

Death in Paris Grinder On Crossing the Atlantic How Suddenly Exhausted For Loving is Real Rolling Out of Bed The Ships Go Nowhere The Longest Journey Visiting the Egyptian Rooms of the Louvre Bad Day, Good Day A Song and Dance for Aaron and Antonia Peace Talk The Wanton Voyager Love is Confined Two Haystacks Desertion Man’s Wife Lady of Turquoise

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