Light Years: New and Selected Poems Book

	A Prayer	3
	The Warehouse Chute	4
	The Soup Jar	6
	People Asleep	7
	Ties	8
	A Garland for Marshall	9
	The Widow	12
	A Gesture	14
	Taking Sides	15
	The River	16
	Two for Wynne	18
	Canned Goods	20
	Fireworks	21
	Flatfish	22
	Spring Song	25
	The Charles River	26
	Sunburst	30
	Sticks and Stones	31
	Two for My Daughter	34
	The Student	36
	The Leaf Eater	37
	We Never Close	38
	Goshen Pass: Winter	39
	Hunter, Prey	41
	The Return	42
	Love Song	43
	High Wire	44
	Keeping Clear	47
	Sexual Disappointments	48
	Urban Hunting Scenes	50
	Speakers from the Vietnam War	51
	The Real World	53
	Deer	55
	The Elect	56
	Mystic	57
	Nomads	58
	Major Work	59
	The Barker	63
	The Midget	64
	The Ballad of the Three Birds	66
	The Hermaphrodite	68
	The Ballad of the Scarecrow	69
	Songs for Champagne Saturday	73
	Turntables	77
	That'll Be the Day	78
	Begging on North Main	81
	Killdeer	82
	Elegies for Walker Dabney Stuart, Jr. 1901-1971	83
	Snorkeling in the Caribbean	88
	An Interlude at the Grand Hotel	90
	No Yellow Jackets on the Mountain	92
	Sharp Words in the Men's Room	94
	Finding One of the Ghosts	97
	Common Ground	99
	The Birds	103
	The Girl of My Dreams	108
	Casting	109
	Once More for My Lady	114
	Taking the Wheel	120
	Don't Look Back	124
	The Girl of My Dreams Is Dying	126
	The Opposite Field	127
	Discovering My Daughter	132
	This Is No Dream. This Is My Life	133
	The Long Goodbye	139
	Gospel Singer	140
	Audition	142
	The Next Step	144
	The Cabbage in History	146
	The Hospital of Lies	148
	Narcissus Dreaming	151
	The Harpist's Dream	153
	Umpire	155
	My Hostess at the Renovated Inn	157
	My Children Going	159
	Hidden Meanings	162
	Dressing	163
	I Can't Live Without You	164
	Percussion	167
	The Water's Fine, I'm Fine	168
	The Executive Discovers Poetry	170
	Timeshare	171
	The Funeral	175
	Tending	177
	Coming To	179
	Love Poems	181
	Fence	182
	His Granddaughter Arrives	183
	Commencement	184
	Presence	185
	Leavetaking	186
	Love's Body	188
	The Writing Machine	190
	Light Years	191
	Sleepwalker	193
	Spell	194