Contents -- Dreamless and Possible: New Poems -- Dancers -- Burning Bush -- Another Letter to the Soul -- The Radio Is Playing Strauss -- Time Travel -- The Hot Corner -- The Dream of '64 -- At Midnight -- I Remember the Queen's Review of the NATO Fleet -- Tiger Tiger -- Dust to Dust -- Home Is the Sailor -- Face -- Letting Things Go -- Jung Doubts -- Desperados -- The "President" Speaks Out on the Issues, 2006 -- Marsh -- Circles in the Shell of the Ear -- The New Creation -- Unaccountable -- Something Borrowed -- "I Have Wasted My Life" -- July -- Mercy -- Visitation -- Love Calls Us to the Things of the Other World -- The Mysterious Courtesy of Fondness -- from The Crime of Luck (1976) & Why Shouldn't I (1977) -- The Wu General Writes from Far Away -- Dear Mrs. Terry -- The Bell Maker -- Hymn for His Hands -- Chance -- The Rose Fields -- Figure Fishing at Night -- from Though Silence: The Ling Wei Texts (1982) -- Introduction: A Reverie -- Ling Wei in Exile -- Ling Wei in His Refuge, Watching -- Ling Wei on the North-Road -- Ling Wei Parable -- Ling Wei's Small Song for His Home Valley -- Four Crystal Women Stepping Out -- Sayings of the Boatman -- Ling Wei's First Day in the City -- Small Impressions Lost Beyond the North -- Parable of the Fortune Teller -- Three Leaf-Thoughts for Kuan -- What Ling Wei Thinks About War -- Winter Sequence -- Devil-Mere -- from Sea Change (1985) -- Aboard the San Juan Ferry -- A Reminder to the Current President -- At the Equinox -- Flights the Wire Bird Watches -- In Grey Water: The Day -- Keeping Watch Under a Lamp Post in the Deep Wood . . . -- Liberty & Ten Years of Return -- Paid in Full -- Ramon's Letter -- Seascape -- The Voyage -- The Pitcher's Pride -- The Death of Giovine -- from Sweet Afton (1991) -- SWEET AFTON, Pennsylvania, Oct. 1, 1937 -- Old Nicholsen Himself.

Pale Rachel's Ancient Point of View -- Master Ronald Westman, Excluded from the Tea -- Cloudia's Angel -- Eldon Clay and the Reverend's Wife -- Bluestocking -- Edgar Cloony's Courtship of Miss Emiline -- The Runaways' Story -- Elizabeth's Story -- Old Lecher Errat -- Plato Hall -- The Spinster Annibel Collier -- The Gallery of Plato Hall -- This Is the Narrator, This Is I . . . -- from Memory and Heaven (1997) -- Alienation -- Four Solitudes -- The Ecstasy of Ceasing to Know -- Elegy at the Onset of Winter -- Dialectic from Three Windows -- Blessing's Precision -- Night Flight Letter to Weldon Kees Found Wadded Up . . . -- Streets -- The Contemporary Theorist Alone at Dusk in His Chair by the Sea -- Talk with the Moon -- You Sailed Away, Oh Yes You Did -- The Record Player -- The Pipes of Oblivion -- Everything -- Mean and Stupid -- Stay with Me -- The Cry -- Brownie Hawkeye -- The Ride -- Window -- Exclusivity -- from Just Waking (2003) -- If the House -- The Fugitive Lover Says "I'm Telling You" -- Here in a Provident Stillness -- Like Feelings -- Two Poems, with Death Betwixt -- He Thinks of the Sea -- The Treetop Mole -- The Dove -- Nefertiti -- Through Light Rain I Wave Goodbye -- Close to the Vein -- At James Island, Early June -- from Light's Ladder (2004) -- If He Remembers June Light in Oslo -- Running -- Trusting the Beads -- History -- If the World Were Glass -- A Party on the Way to Rome -- The Counterchime -- 1974 -- He Writes to the Soul -- King of the Butterflies -- The Fire Elegies -- A Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Heffernan . . . -- All Day at the Brainard Pioneer Cemetery -- Cole Porter -- Keats -- Like Rain Descending -- The New Orpheus -- Heaven -- Acknowledgments -- About the Poet.