Selected Poems Book

	State road 134	3
	My grandfather's funeral	4
	Driving through a country America	6
	The sunplane	7
	Leaf mirrors	8
	William Blackburn, riding westward	9
	Looking for a home in the south	11
	Discardings	12
	Visit with Artina	13
	A kid at the county fair	15
	Revisitings	16
	Zeppelin fantasy	17
	Bordering manuscript	18
	To Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in exile	19
	War summer	20
	A southern elegy	21
	The capsized boat	25
	On the homefront	26
	A vigil	27
	A garden's season	28
	Iron river	29
	With darkening foliage	30
	Diamond of shadow	31
	A forge of words	32
	Combat station	33
	To forgive this inheritance	34
	Images, burning	35
	A minister, crippled	36
	Keeper of the Dragon's teeth	37
	Boundary stones	38
	Tobacco men	41
	Drinking music	42
	Building in the country	43
	Roadside notes in ragged hand	44
	Water	46
	Blood ties : for Jan	47
	Pamlico river	48
	January farmhouse	49
	White lake	50
	Firewood	51
	Some words for fall	53
	From as far away as dying	54
	The Mary tapes	55
	Iron Age flying	65
	English church towers	68
	Evening in bath	69
	Royal hospital	70
	Beginning with Egypt (the British museum)	71
	Foreseeing the journey	72
	Jonquils	77
	Collards	78
	A leaf of tobacco	79
	Barbecue service	80
	Southern voices	81
	The morning after	83
	Greene County pastoral	84
	Quitting time	86
	How to fix a pig (as told by Dee Grimes)	87
	The advisors	89
	World's shoulder, turning	93
	The ford	94
	Crossing on cables	95
	Constructing the river	96
	Just rain	97
	Tree of Babel	98
	Clear winter	99
	Like a body in the river	100
	The sense of light	101
	When the night falls	102
	In sight of the self	103
	Buzzard's roost	104
	An orphaned voice	105
	House of seasons	106
	The water-machine	107
	The sex of divinity	108
	Light beyond thought	109
	Out of my circle	110
	Prayer for my son	111
	The Bison	112
	Bridge back toward the south	114
	Driving toward Cairo	115
	Rivers	116
	The self, that dark star	117
	Sleeping with stars and bulbs, time and its sings	118
	The war against nature	121
	The student pilot sleeps	122
	Lessons in soaring	123
	Art and the garden	125
	The failure of southern representation	126
	A place and a voice	128
	Greenhouse effect	134
	The descent	135
	A conversation	136
	Storm in the briar patch	143
	Home team	144
	A Wilson County farmer	145
	Time at seven springs : an elegy	146
	After Winslow Homer's images of blacks	148
	The cemetery next to contentnea	150
	A father and son	152
	Light's praise	154
	A voice at the river park	157
	Botanical garden : the coastal plains	159
	Autumnal equinox	160
	Letter to my wife, from Minnesota	161
	A tapestry in a mirror in the Palazzo Pamphili	163
	Sailing the inlet	164
	A distant father	166
	Interstate highway	168
	Grandfather Wordsworth	170