Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems Book

	Acknowledgments	15
	A Favor of Love	19
	A Love Koan	21
	The Land of the Shi	22
	Lexington Avenue Musedog	23
	Ash Wednesday, Hurrying Eastward	25
	Nude at a Dressing Table	27
	Repair	28
	The Parsley Ship	30
	The Umbrella	31
	Refusal	33
	Tan Oval Head Leaning Toward Tiny Brown Oval Shell	34
	Let Me Manage Something Simple	36
	The Land of Tears	38
	Couple Sharing a Peach	39
	Diary of Our Day in Painting Titles	40
	Conversation	43
	The Soul House	44
	Breakfast with Cats	45
	A Kind of Parlance	49
	Anno Domini	53
	Nightwake	54
	Walking is Almost Falling	56
	The Lawns of June	57
	The Distance Up Close	61
	The Lull	62
	Just About Asleep Together	63
	Old Roadside Resorts	64
	Those Paperweights with Snow Inside	65
	Where is Home?	66
	Our Room	67
	Loneliness	68
	She Lays	69
	The Shoulders of Women	70
	The Land of Veils	71
	North of the Eyes	72
	Two Cups on the Table	73
	Squirrel Disappears	74
	Things to Do	75
	Smell	76
	Petting and Being a Pet	77
	Waking to the Chatter of the Child Next Door	78
	A Bed for a Woman	79
	And You Were a Baby Girl	80
	Islands in Our Eyes	81
	So, When I Swim to the Shore	82
	Cut Flower	83
	Afraid	84
	A Face Regresses	85
	Sky Inside	86
	Sweet Time	87
	The Veil of If	88
	Mental France	89
	Next Afternoon	90
	Cutting Tall Grass	91
	A Garden	92
	A Gesture	93
	The Burnt Lawn	94
	Nervous Jabbering	95
	Among Tall Buildings	96
	Aubade	97
	Berries Which are Berries	98
	The Little Girls	99
	The Web of Histories	100
	My Vast Presumption	101
	Stumble	102
	Novembers	103
	This Time	104
	Desire	105
	World We Sleep In	106
	Forsythia Below Clouds	107
	The Breach of Or	108
	How I Come to You	111
	The Valley of the Monsters	112
	Buffalo	114
	Commands of Love	115
	Say You Love Me	116
	Blank Paper	118
	Dream Come True	119
	Unexpected Freedom	120
	Putting a Burden Down	121
	That Leaf	122
	Blue and Huge	123
	The Spell	125
	A Hot Day in Agrigento	126
	The Surge	128
	Parrots of the World	129
	Food for Talk	132
	Joy	133
	My God, Why are You Crying?	135
	Merely by Wilderness	136
	Chriseaster	137
	On the Street	139
	The Ghost	140
	Things can be Named to Death	142
	A Simple Purchase	143
	How I Had to Act	146
	Anger Sweetened	148
	Feeling Sorry for Yourself	149
	Throwing Out Old Clothes	150
	Friendship with Men	151
	Reunion	152
	Instead of Her Own	153
	Friends	154
	The Worm	155
	I Must Have Learned this Somewhere	157
	Art Buzzards	158
	Good Girl	160
	Don't Think Governments End the World	161
	Choice	163
	When I Love You	164
	One Place	165
	Altruism	166
	Dear Heart	167
	The Smell of a God	168
	Typing to Evangelize a Cut Flower	169
	Dear Arm	170
	There Must Be	171
	The Wheel	177
	So What If I am in Love	178
	My College Sex Group	180
	Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?	181
	Panties and the Buddha	182
	The Return	183
	Love Wall	184
	Waking Up	185
	The Scare	186
	Marathon Song	187
	The Purr	188
	Lullaby	189
	Blush Blessing	190
	Little Miracle	191
	The Spider Heart	195
	Seeing a Basket of Lobelia the Color of a Bathrobe	197
	The Rule	199
	The Job	200
	Yes	201
	No	202
	Dogged Persistence	203
	The Fare	204
	Miss, Miss, are You Awake?	206
	Unseen	209
	Floral Conversation	210
	I Consider the Possibility	211
	Vogue Vista	212
	Portrayal	213
	Love Beat	214
	The Hunt	215
	The Explanation	216
	Baubles after Bombs	217
	Religious Instruction	221
	In a Long Line of Horses	223
	Subway Vespers	224
	Simple	226
	Forgiveness	227
	Cancelled Elegy	228
	Happy Birthday	229
	Upbringing	230
	Good-Bye Hello in the East Village	232
	Matins	234
	Prairie Prayer	235
	Life Study	236
	Why I am not a Buddhist	237
	Index of Titles	239
	Index of First Lines	245