Contents

Preface

Note on the Text

Uncollected The Rain

Untitled (Fragment)

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Poems

from Bones and Distances (1968) Dogs in Ruin

Four Love Poems

Crabs in the Seine

Oranges on a Table

Letter to Ezra Pound

On Growing Old

A Letter for Mother

Les Saltimbanques

Bones and Distances

Poem for a Birthday

Here It Is Spring Again

Under the Bo-Tree

Legend

The Man Who Died of a Fever

Still Life

Pastorale

Yellow and Blue

The Blue Woman

For Another New Year

Portrait of a Mistress

To a Christian Lady

For a Nun in a Waiting Room

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