Contents
From Draft Balance Sheet, 1968-70
Lecture
Making Repairs
Map
Soliloquy
Draft Balance Sheet
From After the Blizzard, 1970-75
The Examination
The Actor: Decline and Death
The Exile's Recurring Nightmare
Penance
Sunflowers: An Ode
Mnemosyne: The Empty Room
Vivaldi in Venice
Baldungan Castle
After the Blizzard
Signs
Caruso
Dust-Devils
Green Beer
The Path
For the Humanism Class at Fairchild Airforce Base, in Place of a Session on the Book of Job
Witness
Questions for My Grandfather
From Recital, 1975-82
Ritual
The Confession
Studies for a Self-Portrait at Forty
Letter to Richard Hugo from Drumcliff
To His Host, Who Has Asked Him to Stay Longer
Cheiron
An Irish Bull
The Exile Takes Stock of His Surroundings
Requiem
Owen at Play
The Picture of Little Rory in a Municipal Park
The Autobiography of the Impotent Man
Death of Fathers
The Artist, Reclining
House Burning Down
The Exile, en Famille
After Yeats, after Ronsard, Pace Hopkins
Habitations
Astronomy
The Exile's Book of Hours, 1982
Prelude in Darkness
Daybreak
Early Morning Walk to Work
Late Morning Talk
Noon Apocrypha
Meditations of Afternoon
Late Afternoon, Running: Close Reasoning, Listening Closely
Sunset
New Poems, 1982-88
A Gesture
Ten-Mile Run
Aor against the Ingrate Who Abused Our Hospitality
In the Red Corner
The Nun of St. Michan's
Aor against the Termagant from California Who Confused Instruction with Indignation
What the Recent Survey Has Revealed
Running in Snow
Spokane Perspective
Aor against the Bad Reviewer
Coming & Going
The Exile's Fifth Symphony
Press Conference: King James Version
Aor against the Philistine Who Destroyed Lovely Dublin Vistas with His Ugly Erections, Then Absconded to London
Tenor Solo on St. Cecilia's Day
The Dying Swan
Aor against the Warmonger
Pool at the Y
The Photographer's Model
The Exile on His Failing Vision
Three Acts from a Play