Contents
Part I
I Keep the Windows Open
Little Fucker
In the Grass
Small Black Eye
At the Sap Wells
Halfway Down
Prodigal Time
By the Sweat of My Face
Confession of a Bird Watcher
Anthem
Serpent, Witness, Cinematographer
Grouse
The Geese
The Bat in the Stove
Starlings
Part II
Anchorite in Autumn
The Sweet Invisible Smoke
Dress Poker
Transfiguration
My Heart on Your Ass in the Glass
North of the Range
The Muse Writes Luis Jorge Borges a Letter on His 86th Birthday
My Other Body
The Star of Interstate
Part III
Getting Ruth Up
The Pain
Happy Hour
In the Presence of My Enemy
Augustine’s Pears
For All the Love and Devotion
Macanudo
At the Putney Co-Op, an Opera
Rescue
Pool
Poem on My 60th Birthday
The Music
Part IV
The Hand, the Bird
Dumuzi Bids Inanna Good-Bye
Smooth Dark Stone
Oh, Besotted, Critical Father
At the Bardo Barber
The Gift
At the River View Café
Dirge
Riddle
Under the Open
World’s Wild Fire
Cloud Copy
Under the Sun
The Pages
Enkidu’s Dream
Head of the Meadow
The Singer
The Valley
Grouse Call
The Mystical Body
Chains
Notes
Acknowledgments