Selected Poems

Part 1 From "Some Trees": two scenes; popular songs; the instruction manual; the grapevine; a boy; Glazunovania; the picture of little J.A. in a "Prospect of Flowers"; sonnet; the young son; errors; illustration; some trees; the painter; and you know; he; a long novel; the pied piper; le livre est sur la table. Part 2 From "The Tennis Court Oath": thoughts of a young girl; "how much longer will I be able to inhabit the divine sepulcher..."; white roses; our youth; an additional poem; Faust; a last world; from "The New Realism". Part 3 From "Rivers and Mountains": rivers and mountains; last month; if the birds knew; into the dusk-charged air; the ecclesiast; the recent past; a blessing in disguise; Clepsydra; from "The Skaters". Part 4 From "The Double Dream of Spring": the task; spring day; plainness in diversity; soonest mended; summer; it was raining in the capital; variations, calypso and fugue on a theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox; song; decoy; for John Clare; farm implements and Rutabagas in a landscape; Parergon; some words; the bungalows; the chateau hardware; sortes vergilianae. Part 5 From "Three Poems": the system. Part 6 From "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror": as one put drunk into the packet-boat; worsening situation; forties flick; as you came from the Holy Land; Scheherazade; grand galop; hop o' my thumb; mixed feelings; "marchenbilder"; "oleum misericordiae"; self-portrait in a convex mirror. Part 7 From "Houseboat Days": street musicians; the other tradition; variant; wooden buildings; pyrography; the gazing grain; unctuous platitudes; the couple in the next room; business personals; crazy weather; on the towpath; bird's-eye view of the tool and die co.; wet casements; saying it to keep it from happening; Daffy Duck in Hollywood; houseboat days; the lament upon the waters; and "ut pictura poesis" is her name; what is poetry; and others, vaguer presences; the wrong kind of insurance; friends; the ice-cream wars; blue sonata; Syringa; from Fantasia on "The Nut-Brown Maid". Part 8 From "As We Know": from "Litany"; silhouette; many wagons ago; as we know; otherwise; flowering death; haunted landscape; my erotic double; train rising out of the sea; late echo; and I'd love you to be in it; tapestry; a love poem; this configuration; their day; a tone poem; the other Cindy; the plural of "Jack-in-the-Box". Part 9 From "Shadow Train": the pursuit of happiness; punishing the myth; paradoxes and oxymorons; another chain letter; the ivory tower; at the inn; the absence of a noble presence; qualm; here everything is still floating; some old tires; something similar; or in my throat; untilted; the leasing of September; unusual precautions; we hesitate; frontispiece; the vegetarians. Part 10 From "A Wave".