Zinc Fingers Book

On the Arrangement of These Poems	xiii
A to G
Absence	3
Apples	4
Arthritis in St. Petersburg	5
Assisted Living	6
The Brain	7
Certitude	9
Circe	10
The Cliff at Gorge de l'Areuse	11
Coal	12
Coffee	13
Driving through a Storm near Boothbay Harbor	14
Each Morning	15
Election	16
Finches on Aycock Street	17
Fortunato Pietro	18
Francis	19
Grandfather at the Pool	20
H to N
A Handheld Camera Visits Billy's Bar at Happy Hour	23
A Hawk in Athens	25
History	26
Home on Cape Cod	27
A Hot Day inJune	28
The House on Taylor Avenue	29
The Housekeeper in London	30
The Humane Trap	31
Ibises	33
In Memoriam	35
JJ Nortle	37
Japanese Soldier	39
John Keyes & Freud	40
Kissing	41
Letting Go	42
Magnolia	45
Making Love with the One	46
A Meditation on You and Wittgenstein	47
Mulch	48
Multiple Readings in National Poetry Month	49
Nailbiters	50
Naked Poetry	52
No Circe	53
Nor Iron Bars	54
O to Z
On the Road	57
The Open	58
Our Groundhog	59
Pensacola	60
Philosophy in Billy's Bar	62
Pickpockets	63
The Plains of Mars	64
Possibility	66
The Professor and the Librarian	67
The Queen Ant's Love Song	68
Revelation	69
Seven & Seven	70
She, Being an Artist	71
Short Meditation on Long-Suffering Poets	73
Sort of a Sonnet	74
The Teacher	75
Les Temps Modernes	76
Tough Professor Sonnet	77
The Uniform	78
Vincent	79
The Waltz	80
The Wave	82
The Witness	83
The Examiner's Death	84
The Young Poet Speaks	85
Zinc Fingers	86
Acknowledgments	87