Contents
I. Autumn Rhythm
Fall
An Inkling
Evening’s End
The Garden Path
The Royal Nonesuch
Felliniesque
Jaques Lured by Audrey
Bottom’s Dream
Glendower Ponders the Vasty Deep
Reynaldo in Paris
Pro Quo/Fortuna’s Fool
I Greet You/Morte D’Arthur
Room with a View/Primer Litter
Old Times There/Homework
Dark Blurb of the Soul
For My Daughter
The Legacy
Lauds
City Lights
Autumn Rhythm
The Pear
Ready to Satisfy All Your Bereavement Needs
II. from Often in Different Landscapes (1976)
This Print of Dürer’s
Little Keats Soliloquy
Often in Different Landscapes
The Murder of Gonzago and His Friends
What It Feels Like to Live in This Country to Me
Footlight Parade
California
What the New Chef Said
To Laura Phelan: 1880–1906
Song of the Incredible Lonzo
But Once in Special
Gifts
Religious Poem
On the Comeback Trail
Why I Find Myself Immersed in Few Traditions
The Zany
The Lamar Tech Football Team Has Won Its Game
East Texas
To All Those Considering Coming to Fayetteville
Summer in Fairbanks
The North Slope
The Polar Bear
To His Book
III. from The Drifting Away (1986)
Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain
Day Begins at Governor’s Square Mall
Adventures in Bronze
If I Could Open You
The Luncheon of the Boating Party
The Lover Remembereth Such as He Sometime Enjoyed and Showeth How He Would Like to Enjoy Her Again
Morning Song
Semi-Sentimental Thank You Note Sent over a Long Distance
A Skeptical View of the Tarot
This Other
A Funny Joke
The Drifting Away of All We Once Held Essential
A Few Words for Frank Stanford: 1948–1978
Airport Bars
Robert Rickert Wrote Back
Chance of Showers
The Party’s End
IV.
Señor Wences and the Man in the Box
Notes