Contents
Part I.
Double the Digits
Landscape with Desire
Bat Boy, Break a Leg
Wild
On an Oregon Mountain I Remember the Hebrew Mystics
Garlic
English 213: Introduction to Poetry Writing
’78 Chevy
Gravity Hill
Letter to Dad from New Danville, PA
Nights Like This
Gettysburg, 1996
Winter Riff
Sometimes It’s Easy to Know What I Want
Poetry in America
Part II.
The Baby Screaming in the Backseat
After Birth, a Conversation with Myself
Mother with Toddler in Wartime
The Materiality of Language at Lincoln
This Side of Paradise
Swallows over Bellefonte
Veterans Day, Greene County, PA, 2004
The Day
Francis, the Wolf, a War, and Terror
Cardio-kickboxing in a Town of 6,000
Gerard Manley Hopkins on the 6 Train
September’s End
Years from Now When You Are Weary
Part III.
Hen
Westmoreland
Tissue Balloon
Mrs. Bailey Turns Up for a Poetry Reading at Hemingway’s Café in Pittsburgh
Across from Jay’s Book Stall in Pittsburgh
Memorial Day, 1972
Feast of the Epiphany
Elegy Against ——, Ten Years Later
The Girl in the Backseat Returns to Pittsburgh
The Beauty Line
Return to Bern
Oral Tradition
1. Photograph
2. Diary
3. All Things Work Together for Good for Them that Love the Lord
4. Floating on the Lobsang
Summer of the 17-Year Cicada
Yehuda Amichai in Late November
Hens and Chicks
Notes
Acknowledgments