Tumbling Toward the End by David Budbill -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Note to Reader Contents Part I

Morning Meditation Whenever This Place Vanity, Vanity, All Is Vanity Seed Order On Growing Old Lu Shan and Old Age Getting Old What Is Going to Happen to Me? Fat Chance Cheery Little Ditty Quoting Wang Wei without Comment My Friend Writes Pine Grosbeaks Winter Aernoon How Wonderful It Is When It’s Ugly Out Ars Poetica Taoist Poet Reply to My Peripatetic Friends Po Chü-i Believed in Idleness No Fake Mystery Pare Everything Down to Almost Nothing

Part II

An Old Dog Headed for the Park or Glad to Have Another Day April The Company of Other People Ry⁄kan and Oppenheimer: At the Imperial Tea Court Meditate on Your Own Death The Shadblow Tree While Thinking about Death The Death of Promise Is Worse than Death Being Taught Pain Growing Old Alive and Intense Better to Have Less Anguish and Beauty June In Basho’s Travelogue Nobody Home In a Nutshell Seventy-Two Is Not Thirty-Five Birthday Peony What is June Anyway?

Part III

I’ve Given Up My Dreams of Fame and Fortune Rainy Day Done Beyond the World of Red Dust Even if they are larger than man, mountains are his friend. Begin Again Lu Shan’s Ashes The Ubiquitous Daylily of July Hauling Stones out of the Brook After Li Po Summer July 31 The Sound of Summer Golden Glow Shucking Corn Their Fall Migration Begins It’s August Toward the End of August The End of August The Man Who Tries Not to Be Busy Speaks or Trying to Explain the Life of a Poet August In Those Tiny Brains Late August Invisible Visitors

Part IV

After Labor Day Hermit Thrush Dragonfly, Darning Needle, Mosquito Hawk The Last Peach The White Pine Tree All-Night September Rain Hummingbirds All Summer A Sweet Clatter September Light A Mid-September Pot of Flowers More and More Now Dahlias Summer Pasta Why Melancholy Beauty Is Best The Party Envoy to the Party Cleaning the Cellar Smoking the Last Batch of Sausages for the Year Antipoems and Cordwood Not That Much Has Changed Loading the Woodshed —2012 Ready for Winter Old Fool Foolish Monks Loading the Woodshed —2013 Variation on a Late-Fall Theme Horizons Far and Near Six Horses Cold Weather’s Here What I Saw This Morning Trying to Laugh at Myself Among but Not With Incident When the Tamaracks Turn Yellow Shotetsu A Poem about Pain I Never Thought This Would Come to Me Another Poem about Pain He Grieves No Hope for the Aged Goodbye to the Road An End to It I Don’t Want to Leave This World Cats Waiting for the Dawn

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