Flight: New and Selected Poems Book

From Flights of the Harvest-Mare (1985) and The Stillness, the Dancing (1988)

The Stillness, the Dancing 3

Mirror 6

Tongue 7

Child in the Wagon 9

Pearl 11

Reviving the Geyser: Reykjavik, Iceland, 1935 13

Erebus 15

From the Ghost, the Animal 17

Wonders 18

Lesson: The Spider's Eighth Eye 20

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp: Amsterdam, 1632 22

Zuni Potter: Drawing the Heartline 25

Wedding 26

The Klipsan Stallions 28

Mid-Plains Tornado 30

Strike 31

From Heart and Perimeter (1991)

The Shakers 35

For the Sake of Retrieval 37

April 39

Ringing 41

Bird in Space: First Study 42

White Bears: Tolstoy at Astapovo 44

In the Beeyard 46

Nancy Hanks Lincoln in Autumn: 1818 48

Traumerei 50

The Grandsire Bells 53

From The Ghost Trio (1994)

The Winter: 1748 59

Memento of the Hours 61

Windows 63

The Reversals 65

Phantom Pain 67

The Swallows: 1800 69

Hunter 71

Held 73

Westray: 1992 75

Desire 77

Flood 79

Seizure 81

The Skater: 1775, Susannah Wedgwood at Ten 82

Lautrec 84

Care: Emma Wedgwood Darwin, 1874 86

The Fish 88

From The Profile Makers (1997)

Six in All: Preface 93

Six in All: One 95

The Three Trees 97

Altamira: What She Remembered 99

Six in All: Two 101

The Geographer 103

Van Leeuwenhoek: 1675 105

Six in All: Three 107

Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at Eighty 109

The Suicide of Clover Adams: 1885 111

Vespertilio 113

Six in All: Four 115

Edison: 1910 117

Muybridge 119

Six in All: Five 121

Burning the Fields 123

Depth of Field 126

After-Image 127

Six in All: Six 128

From The Seconds (2001)

The Seconds 133

"Will You Walk in the Fields with Me?" 135

The Last Castrato137

Testament: Vermeer in December 138

The Magic Mountain 140

Pasteur on the Rue Vauquelin 142

The Highland 143

Concentration 147

Orbit 149

Latitude 150

Grand Forks: 1997 152

The Circus Riders 153

From First Hand (2005)

Prologue 159

Time and Space 160

Counting: Gregor Mendel in the Prelacy 161

Thinking of Red 162

Matins: Gregor Mendel and the Bees 164

Prodigy 165

Gregor Mendel in the Garden 167

Tulips, Some Said 168

Stroke 170

Gregor Mendel and the Calico Caps 172

DNA 174

Questions of Replication: The Brittle-Star 175

Redux 176

Desires 177

Nineteen Thirty-four 179

Vespers: Gregor Mendel and Steam 180

Sonnet Crown for Two Voices 181

New Poems

Sketchbook 187

Meriwether and the Magpie 189

Durer near Fifty 191

Navigation 92

Thoughts Toward the First Christmas Lecture 194

Fragments from Venice: Albrecht Durer 196

Biography 198

From Campalto 200

Accountancy: Durer in Antwerp 202

Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice 204

Details Depicted: Insect and Hair 206

Acqua Alta 208

Salvage 210

From the Sea of Tranquillity 211

Flight 212