Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- DARK HAY -- THE BLUE VEIN -- E-MAIL TO THE YEAR 2999 -- TURNINGS -- THE GHOST OF A FLEA -- VICTORY OVER THE SUN -- SOME OTHER WOMAN SPEAKS TO ELPENOR AFTER HIS FALL FROM CIRCE'S ROOF -- CONTURBATIO, COGITATIO, INTERROGATIO, HUMILITATIO, MERITATIO: GHAZAL ON THE FIVE PETALS OF THE SALT SPRAY ROSE -- AFTER HITCHCOCK -- TO DANCE THE TARANTELLA -- THE PURPOSE OF JEWELRY -- ANGLES, ANGELS, ENGELS, AND EAGLES -- THE LOST WORLD OF THE AEGEAN -- AND THE TWO GIVE BIRTH TO THE MYRIAD OF THINGS -- TO RADIUS AND ULNA -- MORE PETS -- OCTOBER CROSSWORDS -- THE HARBOUR -- SUBJECT MATTER -- THE IMMORTALS -- THE MUTE DEAF OF THE WORLD -- FROM THE MANAGER -- JEPHTHAH AND HIS DAUGHTER -- EIGHT HOURS IN THE NIXON ERA -- ALFORD -- FROM HISTOIRE DE FLORIDA -- PHARAOH'S HOUSE -- THE AMPHITHEATER -- WEIL -- THE ORDERS -- WINDOWS OF PRAGUE -- A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON -- DIRIGIBLE DAYS -- AND ON THAT NOTE: JAZZ ELEGIES -- A GUIDEBOOK TO THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE -- THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM -- THE EMPTY LOOM -- SPARROW -- INTO BLOSSOM -- THE DEATH OF SENECA -- SEMIOTICS -- THE EVENING'S THEME -- THE LOST HERODOTUS -- ELEGIAC QUARREL: CONCLUSION -- GIRL AT A BARBED WIRE FENCE -- THE ELEGANT LADIES OF TALLINN -- A MAN WHO WAS AFRAID OF LANGUAGE -- CARL'S NECK -- THE WATCHMAN AT MYCENAE -- BROKEN TOOTH -- TSUNAMI -- YELLOW PERIOD -- THE SAME HOUR HAS COME INSIDE MY BODY -- LOS ANGELES -- THE DESERT FATHER -- THREADS 37. -- PARTING THE SORROWS -- THE MAQUILADORAS -- MAP -- DISPENSATION -- THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE -- THE CULT OF RELICS -- GENEALOGY -- AFTER THE WAR -- FACED WITH A MOSQUE IN A FIELD OF WHEAT -- SONATA ON ORIGINAL SIN -- RIVER RHYMES -- ALBERT GRIMALDI IN AMHERST, CLASS OF '81 -- FROM THE HOMEPLACE -- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 -- WEST WINDOW -- THIS A. M. IN BATTI HAS BEGUN -- WANDA -- THE MELOS OF MEDUSA -- LONG FINISH.

GRAVE ROBBING WITH RILKE -- FRUIT FLY -- HOMING -- DOES NOT SUNDER -- TENURE AT FORTY -- GNOMIC VERSES FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON -- NAMANALAGH -- ALTERATION OF BEING -- VIOLIN -- ADOLESCENCE -- LATE ELEGY IN SPRING FOR LARRY LEVIS WITH CARAVAGGIO & HORSES -- AELIUS LAMIA -- SOMEHOW EARLIER, FIELDS OF BRUSHY PAIN OUTSIDE AND FLAT, THOUGH PAINFUL -- TROMPE L'OEIL -- A TRIBUTE -- THE LEXICOGRAPHER'S PRAYER -- DEEP FIELD -- BENEDICTUS -- SIENNA -- POLAROID -- DE OCCULTA PHILOSOPHIA -- NEAR THE END -- THE DONEGAL LIAR -- POUND -- POTATOES, CABBAGES, LEEKS, PLAGUE, WAR -- WAVESON.NETS 14-18 -- COMFORTS OF HOME -- ESCHATOLOGY -- POEM BETWEEN LINE BREAKS -- REREADING THE HISTORY BOOK: CENTURIES XX AND XXI -- CHANGELING -- ORUS, THE FALLEN ANGEL: AFTER DALI'S ATAVISTIC VESTIGES AFTER THE RAIN -- TRAFFIC -- BALLAD OF THE SUBCONTRACTOR -- THE PERATAE, THOSE WHO PASS THROUGH -- POST-DYNASTIC -- BERNARD BARUCH -- HIGH COUNTRY CANTICLE -- WAKING UP AFTER THE STORM -- NIGHT THOUGHTS UNDER A CHINA MOON -- MORNING OCCURRENCE AT XANADU -- COUNTER-FABLE -- RECAPTURED SPIRITS -- THE STRANGE RESTORATION OF J. A. SPLINTER -- GENGHIS KHAN -- A CHRISTMAS STORY -- TAGGERS -- D. -- THE VILLAGE -- OOPS. SORRY -- AS ALWAYS, "UNCLE BARNEY" -- PICK-UP LINE FOR POETS -- THE BODY OF A WOMAN -- ESSAY ON THE EVE OF WAR -- AFTERNOON TEA -- BUILDING RAIN -- SMALL COURTESIES -- IRON SHARD -- STILL LIFE OF SIDELINES WITH BOB -- IN OUT 0 -- BREEDING -- LOVE BENEATH THE NAPALM -- AT THE MOVIES -- YOUR THIN GRANDMOTHER -- ALL THEY WANTED -- THE RIDDLE -- COINCIDENCES -- THE CRICKET -- THE LAST DAYS OF ATLANTIS -- INMATES -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions and Credits -- Issues and Authors.