Contents
1979–1997
Why I’m in Favor of a Nuclear Freeze
Dust Light, Leaves
Halley’s Comet from the West Coast, March 22, 1986
Evening in Santorini
Star Journal
Prima Facie
Midlife
Father, 1952
There & Then
The Presocratic, Surfing, Breathing Cosmology Blues . . .
Camino Cielo
Sycamore Canyon Nocturne
1998–2006
Sleep Walk
Opera
Vacuum Genesis
Astronomy Lesson: At Café Menorca
20 Years of Grant Applications & State College Jobs
Early Cosmology
March 21st & Spring Begins on Benito Juarez’s Birthday in Mexico
Photograph of Myself—Monastery of Monte Toro Menorca elv. 1,162 ft.
Watchful—Es Castell, Menorca
Metaphysical Trees
To Ernesto Trejo in the Other World
Old News: Poem on a Birthday
Poem after Lu Yu
Philosophical Poem on the Usual Subjects
Memory
Wooden Boats
Loyalty
The Uncertainty Principle
Photograph of John Berryman on the Back of Love & Fame
Travel
2007–2014
Poverty
We Need Philosophers for This?
I Too Am Not a Keeper of Sheep: Variation on a Theme by Pessoa
Ode to Clouds
In Memory of the Winos at the Moreton Bay Fig Tree, Santa Barbara, CA
What Einstein Means to Me
Scattering My Mother’s Ashes: Santa Barabara, CA
Theory of Life on Other Worlds: Contemplating Retirement & Social Security Reform at Shore Line Park
Looking West from Montecito, Late Afternoon
Hemingway y yo
Lost Light
Drinking Champagne
Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Postcard
White Shirt
The Shape of Things
Heart Failure
Antiques Road Show
Poem on a Birthday
Metaphysical Poem Ending with That Line from Dirty Harry
Before Long
Late Iberian Manichaeism & the Crisis of Faith
Apnea
Creedence Clear Water Metaphysical Reflection
Slow Learner: In the Garden
Acknowledgments