Morning Poems Book

	Early Morning in Your Room	3
	The Shocks We Put Our Pitchforks Into	4
	Why We Don't Die	5
	Hawthorne and the Elephant	6
	The Old Woman Frying Perch	7
	Conversation with the Soul	8
	He Wanted to Live His Life Over	9
	The Glimpse of Something in the Oven	10
	Bad People	11
	Things to Think	12
	Two Ways to Write Poems	13
	The Barn at Elabuga	14
	The Russian	15
	Some Men Find It Hard to Finish Sentences	19
	Visiting the Eighty-Five-Year-Old Poet	20
	All These Stories	22
	The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog	23
	Reading in a Boat	24
	Waking on the Farm	25
	When Threshing Time Ends	26
	A Family Photograph, Sunday Morning, 1940	27
	A Farm in Western Minnesota	28
	For a Childhood Friend, Marie	29
	What the Animals Paid	30
	The Bear and the Man	31
	When My Dead Father Called	32
	The Green Cookstove	35
	The Playful Deeds of the Wind	36
	It Is So Easy to Give In	37
	Wanting More Applause at a Conference	38
	Making Smoke	39
	Thinking About Old Jobs	40
	Conversation with a Monster	41
	The Black Figure Below the Boat	42
	The Man Who Didn't Know What Was His	43
	The Mouse	44
	The Storm	45
	The Yellow Dot	46
	It's As If Someone Else Is with Me	49
	A Week of Poems at Bennington	57
	The Dog's Ears	59
	When the Cat Stole the Milk	60
	Being Happy All Night	61
	The Widowed Friend	62
	We Only Say That	63
	Wounding Others	64
	What the Buttocks Think	65
	What Bill Stafford Was Like	66
	A Poem Is Some Remembering	67
	Wallace Stevens and Mozart	68
	Rethinking Wallace Stevens	69
	Tasting Heaven	70
	Wallace Stevens in the Fourth Grade	71
	The Waltz	72
	The Neurons Who Watch Birds	75
	A Question the Bundle Had	76
	Seeing the Eclipse in Maine	77
	Clothespins	78
	The Face in the Toyota	79
	The Scandal	80
	Looking at the Stars	81
	After a Friend's Death	82
	The Parcel	83
	My Doubts on Going to Visit a New Friend	84
	One Source of Bad Information	85
	Thoughts	86
	The Grandparent and the Granddaughter	87
	The Ocean Rising and Falling	88
	Ocean Rain and Music	89
	Looking at Aging Faces	93
	November	95
	Three-Day Fall Rain	96
	Winter Afternoon by the Lake	97
	Isaac Bashevis and Pasternak	98
	People Like Us	99
	A Christmas Poem	100
	Reading Silence in the Snowy Fields	102
	Words the Dreamer Spoke to My Father in Maine	103
	Visiting Sand Island	104
	A Poem for Giambattista Vico Written by the Pacific	105
	For Ruth	108
	A Conversation with a Mouse	109