Contents
Preface
Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems 1986
From a Rooftop
The Sheets
Snapshots for Posterity
Old Letters
Small Lives
Mockingbird
Janet
Life Portrait
Sapphics against Anger
1816
Near Olympic
Native Sympathy
Golden Age
The Wartburg, 1521–22
Shucking Corn
On the Eve of a Birthday
Nightpiece
The Lady of Bright Counsel
Short Subjects
Last Tango
In the King’s Rooms
Timothy
Chanson Philosophique
The Treatise on Harmony
Jacaranda
An Aubade
Waiting for the Storm
At Will Rogers Beach
The Chorus
But Home Is Here
Angel
Love Poem
The Skimming Stone
Toward Calgary
Uncertainties and Rest 1979
With a Copy of Ronald Firbank
Sunday Afternoon
Profils Perdus
Stargazing at Barton
II. History of a Friendship in Mattapoisett
III. A Couple, A Domestic Interior
IV. Summer Fairytale
The Messenger
Incident on a Picnic
Learning to Skate
For My Mother
An Interlude of Epigrams
Family Reunion
Coda in Wind
This Is
I. Of Culture
II. Of Faith
III. Of Friendship
Autobiography
Don Juan: A Winter Convalescence
Nightpiece for the Summer Solstice
Strictly Romantic: Coastal Town in Maine
At the Summit
Baker Beach at Sunset
Jogging in the Presidio
California Street, 1975–76
Last Night as You Slept
Mornings in a New Apartment
Rural Colloquy with a Painter
One Morning