Aimless Love · New and Selected Poems by Collins, Billy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents A Note to the Reader About this Poetry eBook Reader From Nine Horses (2002)

The Country Velocity “More Than a Woman” Aimless Love Absence Royal Aristocrat Paris Istanbul Love Obituaries Today Creatures Tipping Point Nine Horses Litany The Literary Life Writing in the Afterlife No Time Elk River Falls Christmas Sparrow Surprise Poetry

From the Trouble with Poetry (2005)

Monday Statues in the Park House The Long Day In the Evening Flock Building with Its Face Blown Off The Lanyard Boy Shooting at a Statue Genius The Order of the Day The Centrifuge The Revenant Carry Fool Me Good The Trouble with Poetry

From Ballistics (2008)

Brightly Colored Boats Upturned on the Banks of the Charles Searching High The Four-Moon Planet No Things The First Night January in Paris Ballistics Pornography Greek and Roman Statuary Scenes of Hell Hippos on Holiday Lost Tension The Golden Years (detail) Adage The Flight of the Statues Baby Listening Bathtub Families The Fish A Dog on His Master The Great American Poem Divorce This Little Piggy Went to Market Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant Oh, My God! The Future Envoy

From Horoscopes for the Dead (2011)

Grave Palermo Memento Mori The Guest Gold Genesis Horoscopes for the Dead Hell A Question About Birds Watercoloring Poem on the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Trinity School The Chairs That No One Sits In Memorizing “The Sun Rising” by John Donne My Unborn Children Hangover Table Talk Delivery What She Said Drawing You from Memory Cemetery Ride Lakeside My Hero Poetry Workshop Held in a Former Cigar Factory in Key West Returning the Pencil to Its Tray

New Poems

The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska Foundling Catholicism Carrara Report from the Subtropics Lesson for the Day Promenade The Unfortunate Traveler Drinking Alone To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl Animal Behavior Lincoln Note to Antonín Dvorák Sunday Walk The Suggestion Box Cheerios Quandary Elusive Looking for a Friend in a Crowd of Arriving Passengers: A Sonnet Digging Central Park Osprey Here and There Villanelle Lines Written at Flying Point Beach Lines Written in a Garden by a Cottage in Herefordshire American Airlines #371 Keats: or How I Got My Negative Capability Back The Music of the Spheres Orient Heraclitus on Vacation Ode to a Desk Lamp Irish Poetry After the Funeral Best Fall France All Eyes Rome in June The Deep Biographical Notes in an Anthology of Haiku Florida in December Dining Alone Lucky Bastards “I Love You” Unholy Sonnet #1 If This Were a Job I’d Be Fired Friends in the Dark Flying Over West Texas at Christmas Last Meal A Word About Transitions The Names

Dedication Acknowledgments Other Books by This Author About the Author

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