Contents
I
What a Doll Am I
Trailer
Renunciation
Club Erebus
They Are Most at Home
Pitch
The Police
First Sex
April 1
The Return of Jan Weiner
Instructions for Telling the Truth
The Fire in the Distance
The Silence
II
Ockham Applies His Razor to the Thought of Aquinas
What Beauty Knows about Itself
From the Curriculum of a Serpent
Puritan in Flight
At the Socratic Sugarhouse
The Bride as Scout
A History of Love’s Body
The Woe That Is in Friendship
Dear George
The Soul Addresses Her Beloved in the Non-Green Zone
The Only Road
Yet so as by Fire
Sunday Calls
III
Coyotes
The Thinker
The Golden Herd
Virgil’s Bees
In a Dark Wood
Storm Cloud
The Percherons
The Animals
August 17
IV
After Marlowe
Bare and Live
This Ecstasy
In the Brief Time We Have Left
After the Storm
To a Grieving Daughter
Pomegranate
Memoir
Absence
Confessions of a Priest
All the Unlikeness
My Love Is a Leaf
The Double Dream of a Grievous Man
Enkidu’s Lament
Dumuzi’s Lament
I Orpheus, I Solomon, I Romeo
Memory Is a Fire
Eros
The Double Truth
Curtains
Postdiluvian
The Mystery
Acknowledgments