Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- How it comes to pass -- Tradition, only the present -- Still life with weave -- Seasons (trying to align) -- Circumference -- Rocket grass -- A little / more -- Enter an empty flowerpot -- Stage left an umbrella -- II -- Why not matter -- Why not bombard, all this heat -- Why not trivialize, surely we love the alphabet -- Why not forget we came here to get a good look -- Why not look it up when you don't know what it means -- Why not examine how time does not change much at all -- Love poem (tree minus limb and counting) -- I woke -- Finding way (an apple or the thunk) -- Through my chest, where were you -- I am inside this flag -- Rosary -- III -- The Waiting -- IV -- Getting ready for time -- Hand clap -- Wing for unaware -- Dialogue of sea -- Nocturne 1 -- Nocturne 2 -- Nocturne 3 -- In the manner of dying -- Peephole.