Contents
I. Night Watch
Night Watch on the Chesapeake
A Church Cemetery in St. Mary's
The Pin
Rage
The Slow Child
Two Poems After Pissarro
Blue Morning Glories
Weeds
Atomic Pantoum
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz
The Azure Falcon
The Sheep
Running with the Hyenas
Marathon Key
Dawn at the Seashore
A Dream of Third Base
One Hundred Robins
Prisoners
The Torture of Monkeys
The Guru
The ABC of Aerobics
The Gift of the Magi
Sonnets for a Diabetic
The Basketball Coach at Fifty
Fifty on Fifty
Lines for the Reviewer
On the Bus in D.C.
The Shells of Bennuda
The Crystallographer in Love
II. Catskill Poems
These Poems
Vision
Fraxinus Nigra
Birchbark
Sunoco Station: Upstate New York
Fourth of July
The Student
The Last Mountain Lion on Maple Crest Mountain
Storm in June
Divorce
Rag Doll
Twenty Years Later
The Album
Caitlin Rampant on a Field in Tuscany
III. Underneath the Lantern
Flatbush
The House
Professor Kerner
The Eel
Aunt Priscilla
Kittens
Stille Nacht, Heilege Nacht
Uncle Joe
Aunt Mary
Arabelle
Melinda
Growing Old
Kathleen
Uncle Sanford
Aunt Gertrud
The Father
First Love
Pink Giraffes
The Children
The Cloud, Florida 1985