The Chain Book

	Acknowledgments
	Invocation	1
	Lamentation on Ur	5
	The Word	6
	The Tank	8
	Child's Drawing: "Boy Holding a Ball at a Funeral"	11
	In the Park	13
	The Safety of Sunday	17
	Under the Mountain	19
	The Line	21
	Song	25
	Crossing the Border	27
	The Denial	31
	Terminus	34
	The Appointment	46
	The Death Radio	49
	Great Island	53
	The Dolphin's Dream	55
	For a Young Painter	57
	The Octopus	61
	The Library	63
	Shame	65
	A Western	69
	Eclipse	73
	The Perspective	74
	Some Larger Motion	76
	The Canoe	78
	The Climb	79
	The Distance Between	80
	The Web	85
	The Work	87
	The Souls	94