Contents -- I -- To Guilt -- The Want Room -- Regret -- They -- Shame -- Grudge -- Wanting Two: A Sonnet/Ghazal -- Entreaty to Indecision -- To the Family of the Man We Ate 130 Years Ago -- Envy Speaks -- The Truth of Poetry -- II -- Current Events -- III -- Ode to Turbulence -- Ode to Mrs. Meunier, Captain of the Guard, P.S. 119 Brooklyn -- Ghazal without the Man -- Barbarous Thing -- O Indigo -- The Poem for Envy I Cannot Write -- Sonnet/Ghazal to Sleep -- At the Reception, 1963 -- Ode to Ginger -- On Not Being Lynn Emanuel -- Ode to Fernando Pessoa -- Your Only Music: Sonnet/Ghazal Starting with a Line from Keats -- Tai Chi in Fog -- IV -- Clare-Hewn -- V -- Cullet -- Cloakroom Wit -- A Pact with Ezra Pound -- Passing -- Slatch -- Jealousy -- Forms of Address -- Envy Ghazaled -- I Have -- Door Litotes -- Uncentered @ the Cathedral Rose Garden -- Hot Springs Cinquains -- Object Memory -- VI -- Riding Out a Monday Afternoon Funk I Read Charles Wright and Tu Fu Over a Cup of Green Tea -- Letter to 700-Year-Old Invidia in the Scrovegni Chapel to Be Folded in the Shape of a Snake Swallowing Its Tail -- Burn and Dodge: A Sonnet/Ghazal -- Cursed Anger Sing -- On the Death of Someone Reviled (Schadenfreude) -- Pandora and the Summer Au Pair -- Lick-Over -- The Unwritten Poem -- Obsesspool -- Impatience Scolding -- Sin-O-Mints -- Either / Or -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.