Contents -- Foreword by W. S. Merwin -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- A Scene -- Monster Poem -- Sunken Forest -- The Tree in Front of the Old People's Home -- Tales Out of School -- The Boy -- Quail -- After the Rain -- The Trees -- Pacific Midnight -- The Water Gardens -- Bay Island -- Carolina Beach -- Roulette -- 2 -- Short History -- An Early Conversation -- The Metamorphoses -- A Beached Whale -- Onegin -- Dialogue of the Dead -- A Field on Delos -- A Girl -- Sea Horse -- Houses -- Letter Found Blown Against a Fence -- "-So Full of Sleep-" -- Armida -- Love That Twisted Vine -- One-Sided Conversation with Henry -- Private Services -- A Fairly Common Story -- Poem -- 3 -- Moving -- The Wrong Music -- City Limits -- How Should I Think Long -- Thought -- Song -- Speech -- Silence -- Aubade -- One-Sided Conversation #-- -- Song Under My Breath -- Realizations -- The Soliloquies -- Sitting Too High in the House -- Like Animals, We Grow -- The Flowers -- This Spring: for Luverne -- Because There Is Time -- Walking Toward the Sun.