The Contracted World by Meinke, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Fish Tale I. Left-Winged Sonnets

Brief Meditations on a Woodcut by Leonard Baskin The Graybeards Marine Forecast The Purity of Absolute Perfection The Death of Friends Turkish Coffee Elderly, She Paints Another Nude The Director 91st Birthday Mystery Caterpillar Plague, 2000 The Skiers Treasure Island Maples and Orange Trees, 2003 Rocking Horse Winner Butterfly Cage The Triumph of Desert Storm

II. The Chemical Chain

The Contracted World P-town, ’04 What Wild-Eyed Murderer The Deserted Village, 2002 Inheritance The Spindled World The True UFO Story The Simplest Animals The Chemical Chain The Little Factory, 1863 M. Hoffstetler's Last Class Blackberry Jam American Youth Lilacs On Teaching Our Son to Tell Time The Wedding: February 26, 2000 The Timaya Tree Epithalamion for Two Scientists The Bookshelf Song from the Wrong Bay

III. from The Night Train & the Golden Bird

The Night Train The Patient Morocco The Great Wall Gramma Bones in an African Cave Neuchâtel Swans Cheerios Vegetables Poem to Old Friends Who Have Never Met Sunday at the Apple Market The Anchor Angels Drink J Randall Randle The Golden Bird

IV. from The Rat Poems V. from Trying to Surprise God

Trout Letter from Warsaw, 1979 Happy Hour A Necessary Bucket Preacher, Said the General The Hunters: Southeast Africa Greta Garbo Poem #41 To an Athlete Turned Poet Threnody Miss Arbuckle Recipe The Artist

VI. from Night Watch on the Chesapeake

On the Bus in D.C., 1980 The Pin Lordship Lane Station Weeds The Sheep A Dream of Third Base Sonnets for a Diabetic Fraxinus Nigra The Last Mountain Lion on Maple Crest Mountain Birchbark Lines for the Reviewer Caitlin Rampant on a Field in Tuscany One Hundred Robins The Shells of Bermuda

Acknowledgments

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