Contents
I
Fishing Seahorse Reef
For Those Who Are No Longer Young
Reading a Violent Love Poem to the Deaf
Villa Maria
Hydrotherapy
Sestina for Indian Summer
Wanting His Child
The Naturalist's Ritual
For Those Saved in the Army-Navy Medical Museum
Romantic, at Horseshoe Key
First Day of the Season
Synecdoche for Many Men
Floating Islands
Fugue
I Picture You at Your Piano
Among the Cows
II
I. To Those Who Shall Discover Me
II. After Love
III. Hymn
IV. Elegy
V. Sestina of Visions
III
From the Wailing Wall
At Dawn
Bypass
On Jekyll Island
To the Field of Reeds
Shards
Freestyle, on the First of Tishri
Learning CPR
Into the Motion of Other Things
The Suit Too Small, the Words
The Last Father Poem
Refusing the Call
The Dig at Caesarea Maritima
The Uncommon Hours
Notes