O Lucky Day

Contents

ix Oxygen: Letter to My Husband After a Quarrel

I.

1 Forest Bathing

2 Juneberry Leaves as Gold Coins

3 Sea Urchin

5 The Wind Phone

6 Poem Beginning with a Line fromAdam Zagajewski

7 Fathering

8 Because What We Do Lives On

9 Silver-Tipped Japanese Grass

10 Give Me a Face to Cover My Face

12 Quarentena

13 Sailor

14 Astronomy ?In Perfect Silence?

15 Soldier Boy

17 Inscape, with Birdsong

18 I Consider Pruning the Magnolia Tree and Instead Take a Nap

19 After My Husband Tries His New Electric Shaver

21 Passing Royalty: Una Sfilata di Due

23 Each Day I Undress

25 Portrait of My Lover as a Promenade Along the Sea

26 Char

27 Love Poem to a Red Fox

II.

31 Wrack Line

III.

37 When the Great Poet Is Gone from the Earth

39 Centers of Gold

40 Italian Madonna

42 Gold Espadrilles

43 Elegy Not to Be Written

44 What My Father Wished For

45 Painter Joan Mitchell Pulls Me Up

47 My Sister's Osprey

48 Our Next Breath

50 You Can't Have Everything You Want

51 Hokusai's Views of Mt. Fuji

52 Döstädning: Beginner's Translation

53 I Like How They Gather

54 My Mother's Shoes

55 Blooms Gripped in a Fist

56 Elegy to Be Breathed at the Grand River

58 36 Myopia Road

60 In Which I Consider Intimacy While Making Paella

61 Aphrodisiacal

62 Home Astronomy

63 When the Goldfinches Return to the Purple Coneflower, He Calls to Me

64 Acknowledgments

65 About the Author