Configurations: New & Selected Poems, 1958-1998 Book

	Swallow the Lake	5
	Kitchen Chair Poem #4	7
	Kitchen Chair Poem #5	8
	My Seasonal Body	9
	Waiting in the Children's Hospital	10
	The Doll Believers	12
	None of It Was	13
	Bill's	17
	Sailing	18
	Dismal Moment Passing	21
	Eighteen-Dollar Taxi Trip to Tizapan and Back to Chapala	22
	The Nerve	23
	The Rainy Season	24
	Madman of the South Side	29
	Food for Thought; or, Death Is Physical	30
	Mother Junkie	31
	The Cotton Club	32
	Giant Red Woman	35
	Words into Words Won't Go	37
	The Expanded Composition	38
	Read the Signs	40
	The Way the Roundness Feels	41
	A Life Story	42
	Funeral	43
	A Guy I Know on 47th and Cottage	45
	The Wounded Bullfighter	47
	Coon Showman	49
	Sexual Conduct	51
	Flowers for My Date	52
	Beyond Impasse	53
	In the Armpit of the Hill	54
	Ballroom Dark	55
	Pupa	56
	Little Rock	57
	Matthew	58
	Young Woman	59
	The Syncopated Cakewalk	60
	At Pointe de Rompe Talon	65
	Divine Law: A Blue Beach Sermon	66
	In Absence of the Tree	67
	Home on Rue du Bourg-Tibourg	69
	Balance and Beauty	70
	Montalban: Near the Ancient Fort	71
	Revelation at Cap Ferrat	73
	Seine Split	75
	Dancing under the Stars at Nice	77
	Atelier Cezanne	78
	En Promenade des Anglais	80
	On the Old Roman Road	82
	Dressed to Kill	84
	"and who must remain"	87
	"He gave the Fascisti salute"	91
	"and as the memory of each"	96
	"There he was, a boy, looking over"	97
	"The theme of Carnevale is a secret"	105
	"Little places"	113
	"We climbed the hill to the carriages"	114
	"In Salute again"	116
	"You set out on a morning bright"	119
	"In a blazing sunset"	122
	"and the single reality"	123
	"See that stern castle"	125
	"The old woman comes"	128
	"They cut down the last tree"	129
	"They canal, this one"	130
	"Alone, I went into that special"	131
	"A Venice dream of the mainland"	133
	"In the hidden garden"	134
	Lost in the Desert	139
	In Hollywood with the Zuni God of War	148
	A Gallup Swill-Hole; or, Cantina Blues	157
	Tewa Victories	158
	Sign Language	166
	Saving Just the Real	171
	First	172
	Sand Flesh and Sky	173
	Pencil Sketch	175
	Riders	177
	Posing	178
	Round Midnight	180
	Study for a Geographical Trail	184
	The Other Side of the Wall	191
	Bernardston	198
	The Swine Who's Eclipsed Me	204
	Love against Death	206
	Apple Core	210
	Honey Dripper	212
	Frenzy	214
	Wyoming	217
	Train Stop	220
	Un Poco Loco	224
	In Walked Bud with a Palette	229
	Being and Becoming	233
	The String	235
	Unwanted Memory	236
	Dance Floor	238
	Bricks and Sleep	239
	A Slow Process	241
	The Apple-Maggot Fly	244
	The Great Horned Owl	247
	The Jake Flower	249
	No Time for Self-Pity	252
	September Mendocino	254
	Descendant of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba	260
	Waiter in a California Vietnamese Restaurant	263
	Brief Visit to Venice	264
	No Single Thing by Itself	266
	Clay Bison in a Cave	269
	Stillness and Vertigo	270
	View from His Room	272
	At the Zoo in Spain	274
	Arriving Uninvited	275
	Santa Maria dei Frari	276
	Birds	278
	Darwin's Dream	281
	Heartland Music	282
	On the Nature of Perspective	284
	Downwind	285
	Looking at Images Reflected in the Showcase Plate Glass	286
	The Perfect Match	287
	Hazy Day in the Composition	288
	Drawing from Life	289
	Harps	291
	Three Views of Horse	292
	The Textures of Space	293
	The Dispute	294
	Measure	296
	Aging Together	298
	The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage	300
	Acknowledgments	321
	About the Author	323