Contents -- Nude Descending a Staircase (1961) -- First Confession -- Solitary Confinement -- On a Child Who Lived One Minute -- Faces from a Bestiary -- Nude Descending a Staircase -- The Autumn in Norfolk Shipyard -- Warning to Sculptors -- Lewis Carroll -- In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day -- Barking Dog Blues -- Inscriptions after Fact -- Lilith -- The Sirens -- Narcissus Suitor -- Theater of Dionysus -- At the Stoplight by the Paupers' Graves -- Little Elegy -- Ladies Looking for Lice -- B Negative -- At the Ghostwriter's Deathbed -- Rondel -- One A.M. with Voices -- Growing into Love (1969) -- Cross Ties -- Poets -- Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought -- Creation Morning -- Traveler's Warnings -- Main Road West -- Edgar's Story -- National Shrine -- Peace and Plenty -- Driving Cross-country -- Reading Trip -- Requiem in Hoboken -- For a Maiden Lady -- Pottery Class -- Absentminded Bartender -- Loose Woman -- Ant Trap -- West Somerville, Mass. -- Day Seven -- The Ascent -- Golgotha -- Ode -- Two Apparitions -- Artificer -- Daughter in the House -- The Shorter View -- Giving in to You -- Slim Volumes -- Breaking and Entering (1971) -- Song: Great Chain of Being -- Consumer's Report -- The Atheist's Stigmata -- In a Secret Field -- Emily Dickinson in Southern California (1973) -- Mining Town -- Schizophrenic Girl -- Evening Tide -- A Little Night Music -- Celebrations After the Death of John Brennan (1974) -- Three Tenors, One Vehicle (1975) -- Talking Dust Bowl Blues -- Song to the Tune of "Somebody Stole My Gal" -- Cross Ties: Selected Poems (1985) -- In a Dry Season -- A Footpath Near Gethsemane -- Dirty English Potatoes -- Goblet -- Aunt Rectita's Good Friday -- Hangover Mass -- One-night Homecoming -- October -- Joshua -- Old Men Pitching Horseshoes -- To Dorothy on Her Exclusion from The Guinness Book of World Records.

At the Last Rites for Two Hotrodders -- Flitting Flies -- The Death of Professor Backwards -- At Brown Crane Pavilion -- On the Proposed Seizure of Twelve Graves in a Colonial Cemetery -- A Beardsley Moment -- Dark Horses (1992) -- The Arm -- Twelve Dead, Hundreds Homeless -- The Waterbury Cross -- Veterinarian -- The Animals You Eat -- Snug -- Overnight Pass -- Two from Guillaume Apollinaire -- Pont Mirabeau -- Churchbells -- To the Writers Forbidden to Write -- Terse Elegy for J. V. Cunningham -- On Being Accused of Wit -- Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World Now that Her Homestead in Amherst Has an Answering Machine -- The Withdrawn Gift -- On the Square -- Dump -- Summer Children -- Tableau Intime -- Finis -- Black Velvet Art -- The Lords of Misrule (2002) -- "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once" -- Jimmy Harlow -- Naomi Trimmer -- Five-and-Dime, Late Thirties -- Sailors with the Clap -- For Allen Ginsberg -- Thebes: In the Robber Village -- Close Call -- Street Moths -- Décor -- The Ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James -- A Scandal in the Suburbs -- To His Lover, That She Be Not Overdressed -- The Blessing of the Bikes -- Sharing the Score -- A Curse on a Thief -- Pie -- Shriveled Meditation -- Meditation in the Bedroom of General Francisco Franco -- Maples in January -- September Twelfth, 2001 -- New Poems -- Panic in the Carwash -- At Paestum -- Rites -- Small House Torn Down To Build a Larger -- Uncertain Burial -- Innocent Times -- Epiphany -- Furnished Rental -- Brotherhood -- Death of a Window Washer -- Pacifier -- Geometry -- Silent Cell Phones -- Fireflies -- Mrs. Filbert's Golden Quarters -- Jerry Christmas -- Poor People in Church -- Sonnet Beginning with a Line and a Half Abandoned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- God's Obsequies -- Storehouse -- At the Antiques Fair -- Secret River.

Command Decision -- Bald Eagle -- Meeting a Friend Again After Thirty Years -- Finding a Tintype -- Out of Tune with the Stars -- Envoi -- Notes -- Index of Titles and First Lines -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.