Begin Again Book

	A woman invented fire	3
	Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from the Work They Love	4
	One day when I was a child	6
	Drowning (I)	7
	Drowning (II)	8
	Life	9
	Right Now	10
	A Poem about Storytelling	11
	A Warning	13
	Alive	14
	At the Battery	15
	An Arboreal Mystery	16
	20th Street - Spring	17
	note to grandparents	18
	psalm	19
	Mulberry Street	20
	War	21
	For Danny	22
	The Nature of This City	23
	On the Fourth Floor	24
	Winter Afternoon	25
	Middle-Age Poem	26
	Bob Visits Friends	27
	On Mother's Day	28
	Housing	30
	Having Arrived by Bike at Battery Park	31
	Whistlers	35
	For George (I)	36
	For George (II)	37
	Certain Days	38
	One Day	39
	The Five-Day Week	40
	Some Days	41
	Vengeance	42
	Family	43
	Letter	44
	My Mother: 33 Years Later	45
	On the Bank Street Pier	47
	Gift	48
	No Love	49
	Words	50
	Quarrel	51
	Question	52
	Old Age Porch	53
	Fund Appeal	54
	For My Friend Who Planted a Tree for His Daughter Jane	55
	Responsibility	56
	Fear	59
	Families	60
	Goldenrod	61
	What is this whiteness	62
	When the wild strawberry leaves turn	63
	Then	64
	In Deepest Summer	65
	Saint-John's-wort!	66
	A bee!	67
	An ant!	68
	False strawberry is	69
	September	70
	The Choir Singing	71
	Leaves - Apples	72
	Connections: Vermont - Vietnam (I)	73
	Connections: Vermont - Vietnam (II)	74
	Song Stanzas of Private Luck	79
	Some Nearly Songs	82
	The Old Dog's Song	82
	34th Street Song	83
	The Sad Children's Song	84
	Traveler	85
	Speaker and Speaker	86
	Quarrel	87
	Autumn	88
	South Window	90
	My Father at 85	91
	My Father at 89	92
	One Day I Decided	93
	In Aix	94
	On the Ramblas - A Tree - A Girl	95
	Oh	96
	In France	97
	I Gave Away That Kid	98
	Subway Station	100
	Bridges	101
	In Hanoi - 1969	102
	Two Villages	103
	That Country	104
	Street Corner Dialogue	105
	Illegal Aliens	106
	In San Salvador (I)	107
	In San Salvador (II)	108
	For Mike and Jeannie: Resisters - Fifteen Years Later	109
	Learning from Barbara Deming	110
	Happiness	111
	Definition	112
	Age	113
	Love	114
	Time	115
	The Women's Prison: El Salvador - The Ballad of Visiting Day	116
	The Dance in Jinotega	120
	People in My Family	123
	In the Bus	124
	House: Some Instructions	127
	The Immigrant Story	133
	Translation	134
	Signs	135
	The Woman Says	136
	Faces	137
	It's True	138
	Tenth Grade	139
	The Boy - His Mother	140
	Suppertime	141
	How to Tell a Story (My Method) - (Most of the Time)	142
	The Word Thrum	143
	My Father Said	144
	He Wanders	145
	Four Short Pieces	146
	The Poet's Occasional Alternative	147
	One of the Softer Sorrows of Age	148
	When this old body	149
	When I Was Asked How I Could Leave Vermont in the Middle of October	150
	Weather	151
	In Montpelier, Vermont	152
	Beef	153
	NOW	154
	Is There a Difference Between Men and Women	156
	Reading the Newspapers at the Village Store	158
	The Desert Wasn't Loved Enough - said Reich	160
	What If (This Week)	161
	This Life	162
	Sometimes	163
	Leaflet	166
	I See My Friend Everywhere	167
	A Letter	168
	For Jan	169
	Luck	171
	On the Deck	172
	For My Daughter	173
	Therefore	174
	In This Dream	175
	Hand-Me-Downs	176
	Here	177
	Walking in the Woods	178