Contents
I. Point
Accord
II. Line
Straight Flush
Where Credit Is Due (Do You Know the Way to San Jose?)
Ear Rational (watercourse for tongues of flame)
Sun Dial
Mapper of (Possible) Fact
Of Unknowing Again
III. Circle
Hand to Mouth (Twist and Shout)
Her First Reckoning
Self-Representation
The Tree-Keeper’s Daughter Speaks
The Alchemist’s Misfortune
Maundy Thursday in Translation
Au Pair a green
Transitive, Intransitive: Extemporary Measures
Fear and Suckling and the Mirroring unto Death
Where, Broken (the darkness
is named) Orpheus
IV. Square
A Very BigWind
Talented and Gifted
Mission Control
Housewife’s Lament
Everything But
This Is Not Normal Movements of the Animal Kingdom
Trading Little Trinkets with the Gods
Welling
Flight Path of Real Desires (my sister visits on the astral plane)
Postcard: To my amaze
The Laundress Maunders II
Wednesday Morning Pray Time
Fur Bowser
The Dinner Date
Boom Profits of Doom
‘‘Under the Tinsel There Is the Real Tinsel,’’
V. Triangle
But When the Representation Does Not Do Justice to the Thought, the Meaning Is Unpleasant
Wants to Sit in the Big Chair. Does
Dialogum
The New Age
A Calculus of Readiness
Chez Poetess
The Upper Class
High Culture
Misses Coordinates (old world mail order)
The Scientific Method
Radioactive Assay and Epitaph (Indian School)
Witness
VI. Point
Sufficient Causes and Artifacts