Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor -- Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium -- In Fear of Harvests -- Three Stanzas from Goethe -- Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio -- Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- The Jewel -- In the Face of Hatred -- Fear is What Quickens Me -- A Message Hidden in an Empty Wine Bottle that I Threw into a Gully of Maple Trees One Night at an Indecent Hour -- Stages on a Journey Westward -- How My Fever Left -- Miners -- In Ohio -- Two Poems about President Harding -- Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959 -- In Memory of a Spanish Poet -- The Undermining of the Defense Economy -- Twilights -- Two Hangovers -- Depressed By a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me -- Two Horses Playing in the Orchard -- By a Lake in Minnesota -- Beginning -- From a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder Shower -- March -- Trying to Pray -- Two Spring Charms -- Spring Images -- Arriving in the Country Again -- In the Cold House -- Snowstorm in the Midwest -- Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960 -- American Wedding -- A Prayer to Escape from the Market Place -- Rain -- Today I was Happy, So I Made this Poem -- Mary Bly -- To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota -- I was Afraid of Dying -- A Blessing -- Milkweed -- A Dream of Burial.