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2 CONTENTS DREAMLESS AND POSSIBLE: NEW POEMS Dancers 3 Burning Bush 4 Another Letter to the Soul 6 The Radio Is Playing Strauss 7 Time Travel 8 The Hot Corner 9 The Dream of'64 10 At Midnight 12 I Remember the Queen's Review of the NATO Fleet 13 Tiger Tiger 14 Dust to Dust 15 Home Is the Sailor 16 Face 17 Letting Things Go 19 Jung Doubts 21 Desperados 22 The "President" Speaks Out on the Issues, Marsh 25 Circles in the Shell of the Ear 26 The New Creation 28 Unaccountable 29 Something Borrowed 30 "I Have Wasted My Life" 31 July 33 Mercy 34 Visitation 36 Love Calls Us to the Things of the Other World 37 The Mysterious Courtesy of Fondness 35)

3 FROM THE CRIME OF LUCK (1976) & WHY SHOULDN'T I (1977) The Wu General Writes from Far Away 43 Dear Mrs. Terry 45 The Bell Maker 47 } Hymn for His Hands 48 Chance $0 The Rose Fields $2 Figure Fishing at Night 53 FROM THOUGH SILENCE: THE LING WEI TEXTS (1982) Introduction: A Reverie $7 Ling Wei in Exile 59 Ling Wei in His Refuge, Watching 60 Ling Wei on the North-Road 61 Ling Wei Parable 63 Ling Wei's Small Song for His Home Valley 64 Four Crystal Women Stepping Out 6$ Sayings of the Boatman 66 Ling Wei's First Day in the City 67 Small Impressions Lost Beyond the North 68 Parable of the Fortune Teller 70 Three Leaf-Thoughts for Kuan 71 What Ling Wei Thinks About War 72 Winter Sequence 73 Devil-Mere 74 FROM SEA CHANGE (1985) Aboard the San Juan Ferry 77 A Reminder to the Current President 78 At the Equinox 80 Flights the Wire Bird Watches 82 In Grey Water: The Day 83 Keeping Watch Under a Lamp Post in the Deep Wood VII

4 Liberty & Ten Years of Return 88 Paid in Full 90 Ramon's Letter 91 Seascape 92 The Voyage 93 The Pitcher's Pride 94 The Death of Giovine 96 FROM SWEET AFTON (1991) SWEET AFTON, Pennsylvania, Oct. 1, Old Nicholsen Himself 101 Pale Rachel's Ancient Point of View 102 Master Ronald Westman, Excluded from the Tea 103 Cloudia's Angel 105 Eldon Clay and the Reverend's Wife 107 Bluestocking 108 Edgar Cloony's Courtship of Miss Emiline no The Runaways' Story in Elizabeth's Story 112 Old Lecher Errat 114 Plato Hall 115 The Spinster Annibel Collier 117 The Gallery of Plato Hall 118 This Is the Narrator, This Is I FROM MEMORY AND HEAVEN (1997) Alienation 127 Four Solitudes 128 The Ecstasy of Ceasing to Know 130 Elegy at the Onset of Winter 132 Dialectic from Three Windows 133 Blessing's Precision 135 Night Flight Letter to Weldon Kees Found Wadded Up Streets 139 Vlil

5 The Contemporary Theorist Alone at Dusk in His Chair by the Sea 141 Talk with the Moon 142 You Sailed Away, Oh Yes You Did 144 The Record Player 145 The Pipes of Oblivion 147 Everything 148 Mean and Stupid 150 Stay with Me 152 The Cry 154 Brownie Hawkeye 156 The Ride 157 Window 159 Exclusivity 161 FROM JUST WAKING (2003) If the House 165 The Fugitive Lover Says "I'm Telling You" 166 Here in a Provident Stillness 169 Like Feelings 171 Two Poems, with Death Betwixt 173 He Thinks of the Sea 176 The Treetop Mole 178 The Dove 180 Nefertiti 182 Through Light Rain I Wave Goodbye 183 Close to the Vein 184 At James Island, Early June 185 FROM LIGHT'S LADDER (2004) If He Remembers June Light in Oslo 189 Running 190 Trusting the Beads 192 History 195 If the World Were Glass 197 IX

6 A Party on the Way to Rome 198 The Counterchime He Writes to the Soul 203 King of the Butterflies 205 The Fire Elegies 208 A Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Heffernan All Day at the Brainard Pioneer Cemetery 213 Cole Porter 216 Keats 218 Like Rain Descending 219 The New Orpheus 220 Heaven 221 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 223 ABOUT THE POET 227

DANCER AND THE MOON (Ritchie Blackmore Candice Night Pat Regan)

DANCER AND THE MOON (Ritchie Blackmore Candice Night Pat Regan) I Think It's Going To Rain Today A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with grey Human kindness overflowing And I think it's gonna rain Yes I think it's gonna rain Oh I think it's gonna rain, rain today