If in Time: Selected Poems, 1975-2000 Book

THE CALL (1997-2000)	1
Template	3
September Song	5
Typography	7
Diorama of the Uninhabited Yes	8
Walk	10
Legacy	13
New Brooms	16
Winter Strawberries	18
Narcolepsy	19
The Call	21
The Same Moon	24
Splendor	26
Snow	28
Interleavings (Paul Celan)	31
A Novelist Speaks (Don DeLillo)	32
Invoice	34
C Is Forgiving	36
Frayed Edges	37
Freesia Errata Slip	43
from ON A STAIR (1996)	45
Invocation	47
On (Word)	48
On(Thing)	49
On (Dream)	50
A Clown, Some Colors, A Doll, Her Stories, A Song, A
Moonlit Cove	51
Nocturnal Reel	65
A Valentine for Tomorrow	68
Staircase	71
Daylight Savings Time	72
Blake's Lagoon	74
Night Barrier	77
Poise on Row	80
Sequence with Dream Objects in Real Time	82
Free Fall	85
And the Question Of	87
Poem with Last Line from Epictetus	90
from AND FOR EXAMPLE (1994)	91
The Prior	93
Rancor of the Empirical	96
The Untelling	97
Eclipse with Object	99
from For Example	100
Stepping Out	100
Tangled Reliquary	106
Lost Section	110
Song of the Already Sung	114
Of the Fire	119
And the Fire Spread	124
Seven Songs for Joe	131
Missing Ages	137
Harm's Way, Arm's Reach	140
Ashes, Ashes (Robert Ryman, Susan Crile)	143
In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse)	147
When Color Disappoints (Joseph Beuys)	152
from CLAMOR (1991)	157
Tuscan Visit (Simone Martini)	159
Gesture and Flight	162
The French Girl	166
Tribe (Stamina of the Unseen)	168
Clamor	170
Boy Sleeping	172
Of the Meadow	174
How Things Bear Their Telling	176
Local Branch	179
Prom in Toledo Night	180
Remorse of the Depicted	190
Lakeview Diner	191
Not That It Could Be Finished	192
Annotation	193
After the Storm	194
Report	195
Tock	196
from BEFORE RECOLLECTION (1987)	197
Subject to Change	199
The Vanquished	200
Poem for Margrit, for Frida	201
Closing Hours	202
Psyche's Dream	203
Still	204
Saint Lucia	205
Holding Air	208
As Far As the Eye Can See	209
Monody	210
Naming the House	211
Landscape with Vase	212
Carousel	213
Before Recollection	215
Medieval Evening	216
Lake of Isles	217
Topaz	218
Path	219
Coastal	220
Aperture	221
Vernal Elegy	222
A Simple Service	223
The Walled Palace	224
Narrow Margins	225
Later That Evening	226
from MANY TIMES, BUT THEN (1979)	227
A Visit to the Country	229
Gramercy Park Evening	230
Then Suddenly	231
Along the Way	232
Winter Sky	233
True and False Green	234
The White Sequence	235
Configuration of One	238
Gray Morning	239
Poem	240
Romance	241
As It Turns Out	242
The Day After	243
Last Night It Rained	244
Standing at a Distance	245
And So	246
East River Barge	247
Reynolda Gardens	248
Country Evenings	249
After All	250
The Relinquished	251
Second Descent: 1975	252
Quotations from Reality	253