Contents
One Easter Not on the Calendar I Woke
A Man and a Woman Might at This Moment
Done for the Doing
Love Sonnet: Believing Part of Almost All I Say
Poetry
Freshman Sonnet: Success
The Fantasy Echo
I Was Not Sleeping nor Awake
In Species, Darling
Darlin
The Something/Nothing Any Love Can Tell
ALove Poem
Dear Sir
Late Peaches
Back
Echoes
The Dayof the Peonies
For Myra, John L., and Benn
Midnight
Psalm
God
To Be Delivered on Arrival
It Is for the Waking Man to Tell His Dreams
The Aging Lovers
Sound
A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
Sitting Bull at the Circus
Obit
An Overthrow
Matins
Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones
Thinking about Girls
An Old Man Confesses
Caught as We Are
A Traffic Victim Sends a Sonnet of Confused Thanks
to God as the Sovereign Host
On Something Like the Temptation of St. Anthony
A Successful Species
Ten Minutes My Captive
Sea-Birds
In the Audience
Napping by the Fence
Nine Gray Geese
This Moving Meaninglessness
March 20, 1970
December 13, 1979