CONTENTS
FOREWORD A Note on Stephen McLeod’s The Borgo of the Holy Ghost
ONE
DONATION
BECOMING KANSAS
THAT CRAZY MOON
ANDANTE CON MOTO
THE SHOULDER WHERE IT BELONGS
OF BEING AND ESSENCE
THE EXECUTION
LOGO
THE BORGO OF THE HOLY GHOST
EASTER IN BELGRADE, 1999
A.D.
AT JOHN BROWN’S GRAVE
DIVA
THE BROKEN GULL
TWO
OBSESSIVE
LIMELIGHT
MISMALOYA BAY (Mexico: 1977)
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
MY FATHER’S SON
BROKEN
OUR LADY OF ABUNDANCE
FOR BARBARA & VINCENT
AGAINST STEVENS
I SAW THE WORLD END
NIETZSCHE AT BAYREUTH: 1876
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
BRINDISI
THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
CHRONIC
BLESSING
FIRST MORNING LIGHT
AN EXERCISE FOR LOVERS
WHAT TO DO WHAT TO SAY
THREE
CREATION (Rodin)
ICI (Joan Mitchell)
APOLOGY (Willem de Kooning)
GRAY AND GREEN (Mark Rothko)
AUTUMN RHYTHM
PIETA (Michelangelo)
ANNUNCIATION (Fra Angelico, Cell 3, Convent of San Marco, Florence)
LATE READING
WHERE I WOULD NOT GO
MY BROTHER’S GHOST
JUST BY DECIDING IT
JUST THE FACTS
ALL ROADS LEAD TO KANSAS
ROSES
AT THE WEST STREET PIERS
HEAVEN REASSIGNED
WHAT COMES THROUGH HEARING
THE DEAD
THE MAY SWENSON POETRY AWARD