The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems Book

	Fish tale
	Brief meditations on a woodcut	3
	The graybeards	5
	Marine forecast	6
	The purity of absolute perfection	7
	The death of friends	8
	Turkish coffee	9
	Elderly, she paints another nude	10
	The director	11
	91st birthday	12
	Mystery	13
	Caterpillar plague, 2000	14
	The skiers	15
	Treasure Island	16
	Maples and orange trees, 2003	17
	Rocking horse winner	18
	Butterfly cage	19
	The triumph of Desert Storm	20
	The contracted world	23
	P-town, '04	25
	What wild-eyed murderer	26
	The deserted village, 2002	27
	Inheritance	29
	The spindled world	30
	The true UFO story	31
	The simplest animals	33
	The chemical chain	34
	The little factory, 1863	35
	M. Hoffstetler's last class	36
	Blackberry jam	37
	American youth	38
	Lilacs	39
	On teaching our son to tell time	40
	The wedding : February 26, 2000	42
	The timaya tree	43
	Epithalamion for two scientists	44
	The bookshelf	45
	Song from the wrong bay	46
	The night train	53
	The patient	54
	Morocco	55
	The Great Wall	56
	Gramma	57
	Bones in an African cave	58
	Neuchatel swans	59
	Cheerios	60
	Vegetables	61
	Poem to old friends who have never met	62
	Sunday at the apple market	63
	The anchor	64
	Angels drink	65
	J. Randall Randle	66
	The golden bird	67
	From The rat poems	69
	Trout	77
	Letter from Warsaw, 1979	81
	Happy hour	84
	A necessary bucket	85
	Preacher, said the general	87
	The hunters: Southeast Africa	89
	Greta Garbo poem #41	91
	To an athlete turned poet	92
	Threnody	93
	Miss Arbuckle	94
	Recipe	95
	The artist	96
	On the bus in D.C., 1980	99
	The pin	101
	Lordship Lane Station	102
	Weeds	103
	The sheep	104
	Dream of third base	105
	Sonnets for a diabetic	107
	Fraxinus Nigra	109
	Birchbark	110
	The last mountain lion on Maple Crest Mountain	111
	Lines for the reviewer	112
	Caitlin rampant on a field in Tuscany	113
	One hundred robins	114
	The shells of Bermuda	115