Fall 1986
Table of Contents
Poetry
50 on 50
A Cabinet of Seeds Displayed & The Three Towns
A Dislike for Flowers
A Fugue
A Man’s Vocation Is Nobody’s Business
A Story You Know
All Hallows Eve
Any Night; Last Song of the Angel of Bad Luck; & Who
Ararat
Bedtime Story & A Winter Visit
Biography of a Still Life
Blossom
Bread
Caravati’s Salvage: Richmond, Virginia
Crickets
Cutting Beetle-Blighted Ponderosa Pine
Dance Script with Electric Ballerina
Desire
Don Juan in Winter
Earthsleep
Enough Time & Because We Are Not Taken Seriously
Finisterre
Flood
For Dulcimer & Doubled Voice
From a Milkweed Pod
Graffiti for a Particle Accelerator
Green Tomatoes & Watch Them Die
Greenwood
Horn
If Justice Moved
In Scorching Time
In the Winter Dark
It’s All in Your Head
Jackpot & Haying
Judgement of Paris
Just Now
Landscape of Domestic Life
Last Words to James Wright
Lesson & I Arrive in a Small Boat, Alone
Luminare
Luxury of Sin
Märchenbilder & Whether It Exists
Martyrdom: A Love Poem & Syllogism
Milkweed Pods in Winter & Southpaw
Monuments
Mountain Soprano
Moving Out
My Guardian Angel Stein
My Swallows & Hidden Justice
Nothing Happened
Novena
Old Theme
On the Marshes at Dawn
Once Upon a Time
Orb
Orchestra
Page from the Koran
Painting a Madonna
Perennials
Pigs
Plague Sermon
Prayer Service in an English Church
Receiving the Stigmata
Savants
Saying Her Name & Old Map of Barnstable County
Seasons & Muted Music
Severe Figures
Simple Rituals
Skunk Cabbage & At Loxahatchie
Sometimes Music Rises & Of Sitting Bear
Spring at Arm’s Length
Stairs & Fate
Stitching in Time: Dorothy Ruddick
Such Instance
Taking the Milk to Grandmother
Thanksgiving, Growing Older
The Art of Surrender
The Cartographers
The Competitors
The Creation of the Inaudible
The Faithful
The Fat Lady Travels
The Feast of Stephen
The Final Prospect
The Great Poems
The Harbor
The Intimate Earth
The Last Rebirth
The List
The Name of God Is
The People in These Houses
The Prejohn
The Printer; Epilogue; & Prologue
The Rapture Is Coming
The Reckoning
The rock of this odd coincidence
The Second Story
The Second Violinist’s Son
The Second Year
The Stagger of the Wind That I Think Is Your Turning
The Travellers
The Tremors at Balvano
The Walk
The Witch’s Life; Locked Doors; & Snow
To Rise, So Suddenly
To the Cicada & Honey
Topography
Trusting Each Other & Tides
Trying to Separate
Views of an American Writer
What the Wing Says
Wheat
Where We Are
Widow Under a New Moon
Windows
You Tell Me
Zimmer to His Students
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