Contents
Before
Part 1
Geology of Water
Kneeling Self-Portrait
At the End of Outside
Antibody
Another Unclassical Eclogue
Placet Futile
The Beautiful
Salt Point
Deepest of the Great Lakes, Largest Too
Where It Passes, Untouchable
Lens
Acmeist Night
Surface Effects in Summer Wind
Narcissus Poetica
Solstice as Demon Lover
Vampires
Part II
Hermes, the Trickster
Another Conversation With the Moon
About a Boy
Another Movable Feast
Locale
Who Owns the Night and Leases Stars
Moonlight on Endymion’s Sleep
Princes
False Nocturne
Popular Music of the Forties
Saint Hyacinth
Miscegenation
A Photo of the Berberini Faun
That Man
Part III
Littler Sonnet
To the Southern Cross as It Disappears
Some Maps
This History of His Body
Proprioception
Brightens
From the World of Matter
Seven Little Songs About the Moon
Motive
Dear Blackbird
Cities for Carter
Also Love You
Part IV
Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something
Crepuscular
Telemachus on the Waterfront
At the Grave of Hart Crane
Icarus on Fire Island
The Little Mermaid’s Fortune Teller
Shipwreck and Drift
Michael Who Walks by Night
S’il Meurt
L’Après-Midi
World
Acknowledgments