Contents
Wounded Elocution
Crepuscule
Couplets from Late March
First Anniversary
Cheap Weekend in Another Country
Apparitions in April
Souvenirs
Song of the South
Brink of Spring
Entrance
Reversing the Flow
Origin Myth
Tutorial
Hooftaps
The Fifties from the Back Row
The Great Depression
Sepia Mississippi
Essence and Shadow
Death Wish
My Own Personal Jesus
Missing in the Sunburnt Season
Press the Button to Hear the Word
Succession
At Santa Maria in Cosmedin
Coming or Going
Entropy
At Hadrian’s Villa
For My Newborn Grandson
On an Album of Italian Photographs
Mercury in the Tall Degrees
Florence in Flames
Blessing and Hex
Flaws and August at the Lake
Vanishings
Perpetual Afternoon on the Patio
En Plein Air
Rented Days in the Poconos
Hazards and Grace
Ye Are of More Value than Many Sparrows
Blade
Dahlias in Akron
Getting There
Ashes and Debris
Thanksgiving Plus One
Little Chisel
In the Bleak Midwinter
Blue Christmas
Decembering
Hibernal
Deep Sleep in Venice
Open Road Blues
Rhetoric of Weather
Northern Discomforts
Poet in Contention with Himself
Spring Wind
Bride of the Adriatic
Watching the Sun Go Down with Jack Daniel’s
Jumble of Photographs in a Paper Bag
Memento
Tenth Anniversary
Warming Up the Leftovers
Circuits Open and Closed
Ghost Variations
Acknowledgments