Contents
Part I
This World
Part II
Anniversary
He Comes Home
Can
Flood
Infidelity
After the Garden
In April
Vale of Tears
Valentine
Part III
Green Waters
Bleeding-Heart
On This Earth
Letter to Myself as a Child
Carrot
My Father's Tongue
All Sweet Things, Like Forgiveness, Are a Falling
Fortune
Where My Mother Cries
Papaya: Lancaster County
Leaving Crete
At Thirty-Four
Part IV
Mrs. Richard Plays a Starlight Waltz
My Father Waits on the Banks of the Warwick River, 1939; My Mother Returns from a Picnic
At Hilltop Manor
Hear that Dog Barking? He Wants to Get into Your Poem
Living without You
The Ancient Emperor Mourns His Sugar Baby
Immaculate Conception, 1969
Cooking the Lobster
When You Woke Crying
Heartbreak
I Used to Be Unbelievably Sexy
Birthday Poem
Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface