Contents
Foreword by Philip Levine
I
The Two Trees
In 1967
The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
Anastasia and Sandman
Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967
Shiloh
The Poem Returning as an Invisible Wren to the Wild
II
The Thief in the Painting
Boy in Video Arcade
The Cook Grew Lost in his Village, the Village in the Endless Shuffling of Their Cards
The Smell of the Sea
Elegy with a Petty Thief in the Rigging
Elegy for Whatever Had a Pattern in It
III
Elegy with the Sprawl of a Wave Inside It
Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage
Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand
Elegy for Poe with the Music of a Carnival Inside It
Elegy with an Angel at Its Gate
Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It
Elegy Ending in the Sound of a Skipping Rope
Acknowledgments