Contents
I
Washing the Steps
My Old Friend, My Daughter, October, Wassergass
I blame it on him
I CAN'T FORGET YOU.
The Silent Archangels
The Eternal Present of the Ancient Chinese PoetsA
Cover Girl Sparkle
Flicking
Receiving at the Kneeling Rail
The Disappearing Trick
Pear Tart
II
Pitching in the Aggie
A Room for Jesus
The Right Dress
The starlings fill the trees
At the Breakfast Table with My Seventeen-Year-Old Son
Car on the Road, Late July, Wassergass
Letter to HC in the Hospital
MISSING
Fireflies at the Cohoes Drive-In
The saints always
Card Game
III
Indulgences for the Dead
In the Expert Valet Clothing Shop
Another Lent, the purple shrouds
Trying to Read Han Shan
Limbo, Wassergass
The San Miguel All-Mexican Band
Lucky
Bullfrog, Wassergass
SuetB
Sequence
Sleep-Eaze
IV
The Chasm
Four-Way Switch
The Ninth Circle, Wassergass
I keep repeating the name of the concerto
Letter #3 to Carruth about the Heron
Hanging Tinsel
Snowflakes in Hell
Considering Aunt Bea's white Toyota Celica
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A. "Poets" here, "Poems" on page. See note.
B. Changed to match the order of poems; please let me know
if you'd rather change the order of poems to match the contents.
8
Right after Mass
Inside the dim kitchen the rosary
Window Candle
V
Heaven's Gate
Our Son Leaves His Miniature Japanese Sand Garden Behind Because
There Will Be No Room in the Dorm
Compensate
The Failed Disappearing Trick
My Father, Setting the Line, Sunny October
Monitoring Impulses
Sister Aquinas, Questioning
Peaches in Pennsylvania Late August
What does a man who's 55 say
Window of Our Soul
Dinner with My Son, Casey Lynn's Diner, Hellertown