Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- I. Topoi -- To See the Earth Before the End of the World -- Topoi -- 1. Morning -- 2. Deep Time -- 3. Planetarium -- 4. Lunar Eclipse -- 5. Topoi -- 6. Many Locations -- 7. The -Men -- 8. The instant though, is ours -- 9. Old Dependency -- 10. Proto-pyramid Figure -- 11. What Word -- We look at the world to see the earth -- II. The World, Then -- About What's This -- The World, Then -- The world then -- Facing up to -- We see the farther away -- A haze you can't see by the sky -- He wore his glasses -- The wall stores -- As if all physical display were not that -- For all the questions -- help / answered with -- More than a few seconds after -- Teapot Boiling, How to Begin the Day -- A clay pot arrives at the table -- Clock death on every corner -- a wall turned in the fever sun -- The flies cleaning their multiple eye -- the split in the head -- With bushes for thick glasses / But we can see -- A thin line drawn on the morning -- "There are things that I would otherwise . . . " -- Distance works -- spiral galaxies -- the level/ some people -- A swaying path -- The red spot on two mating cranes -- Stopped against -- The lathe that turns the necks -- A cloud is whatever it is -- A lamp's fingers -- Its 93 million miles -- Inside our moment -- III. Chromatic Sequences -- Chromatic Sequences -- 1 Form in early movies -- i What Color -- 2 we were not seeing movement -- ii About the trees bending -- 3 Chromatic Spatiality -- iii The spaces of color -- 4 1948: Art and Third Grade -- iv not in the Folkways Collection -- 5 Darkly -- 6 The Metaphor of Impressionism -- vi your skin -- 7 advances in latitude -- vii The still green latitude -- What the Tree Took, On the Table -- 8 Drawing on What Is There -- 9 Question to the Director -- 10 Architectural Drawing -- 11 Architectural Program.

xi travel structure -- 12 The building is up -- 13 the list of if -- Profit Fulfilled -- Man with Three Degrees -- IV. Playground and Parks Department Music -- Egg Gatherers -- War Song, Child's Flute -- This Year -- Nothing New -- New World Orchestra -- Song -- New World Orchestra in the Market of the Weavers -- American Jazz Quartet -- piano In the Lobby -- bass Urban Specific -- sax Pick Him Up -- drums Tithes for Charity -- Summer boats, migrating -- Sight Read on a Couple Stars -- (Ring! . . .) -- Transit Authority -- Nine Chicago Poems -- Flock Life -- Nolan Riding the Bullet Train -- Relative Time -- Gauntlet -- All at Once -- Machinery -- Centripetal Force -- On the Sparrow: No Blame -- Sfumato -- Playground and Parks Department Music -- V. Of the Earth -- A Low Bank of Cloud -- Watching for the Ancestors -- Of the Earth -- Song to Anubis -- Road Ikon -- Run -- The Heavens -- The Original Deed -- Chorus -- Tribal Tag -- Boy God Quetzalcoatl Water Shape Stood -- Last of the Bush Baths -- As a tool of the landscape . . . / (staying in school) -- Feast of the Missing -- Imponderable Thirst -- Psalm (a line-singing of) -- Flight Record -- At the Top of the Chain -- The Bird That Walks on Lily Pads -- Earthenware -- As at the Far Edge of Circling -- A Slim Volume Taken Into the Provinces -- Empty Sky -- About the Author.