Contents

new poems

Speech Acts for a Dying World

That I Saw the Light on Nonotuck Avenue

Every Day I Want to Fly My Kite

Now It’s Dark

Sunshine

Some Joy for Morning

From This End of Sadness

Sky Burial

Sunday’s Empire

Now It’s Dark

The Present Is Constant Elegy

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from periplum, and other poems (1992) Periplum 32 Blue Peter 33 Poem for John Wieners 36

from artificial heart (1998) Toy

Speck

Ledger Domain

Caption

Pierced

Tous Les Matins du Monde

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from some values of landscape and weather (2003) A History of the Lyric 53 Overtakelessness 62 Edgar Poe 63 It Was Raining in Delft 64 Château If 65