Contents
1
The Haunted House
The Secret Graveyard
A Letter From Home
Characters
An Old Woman’s Children
Genital Secrets
Monkey Achievement
That . . .
Sweet Tooth
The Babies
The Flowerpot
The Glandular Condition
The Key
The Laws
The New Father
The Position
The Sleeper’s Dark
The Tormented Mirror
Where Charity Begins
2
The Antiques Shop
Accidents
Baby Pianos
Balls
Madam’s Heart
Meanwhile . . .
Pork Chops
Sleep
The Academic Sigh
A Redundancy of Horses
The Alfresco Moment
The Bloodworthy Correspondence
The Breast
The Clock
The Horse of Fashion
Sunset
Urinating
On the Writing of a Prose Poem
3
Poetry
Bread
Feathers
Medical Stew
Nocturne
One Who Bathes in Moonlight
Symmetry
The Fruit Bowl
The Joy Attendant on the Little Journey
The Message
The Passion
The Rabbit Story
Night Song
The Square Wheel
The Stuff of Dreams
The Traveling Circus
The Veterinarian
Under Great Light Flooded Clouds
4
The Grinding
Allegory
Angels
An Observer of Incidentality
Sanity
Round
Chickens
Nice
The Encounter
The Bath
The Night Invaded
The Method
The Reality Argument
The Theory
The Twilight of the Gods
Thus Spake Polly
The Rule and Its Exception
Wings