The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems, 1967-2000 Book

	The friary at Blossom, prologue & instructions	3
	Popham of the new song	7
	In the dead of the night	17
	For Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965	18
	Indian summer	19
	The hour	27
	A village priest	28
	Descent into the hours of the peregrine	30
	The Pennacesse leper colony for women, Cape Cod: 1922	31
	Pastoral	33
	The obscure	34
	About infinity	36
	Anima Poeta : a Christmas entry for the suicide, Mayakovsky	37
	Monologue of two moons, nudes with crests: 1938	39
	Elegy asking that it be the last	41
	Nineteen forty	42
	February : the boy Brueghel	43
	The czar's last Christmas letter : a barn in the Urals	45
	These untitled little verses in which, at dawn, two obscure Dutch peasants struggled with an auburn horse	48
	Her monologue of dark crepe with edges of light	50
	The wedding party	53
	The immoralist	55
	Sun and moon flowers : Paul Klee, 1879-1940	56
	Ibis	58
	The trees of Madame Blavatsky	62
	The moths	63
	Elegies for the Ocher deer on the walls at Lascaux	69
	Ghost	81
	The city of the olesha fruit	83
	The seagull	87
	A widow speaks to the auroras of a December night	90
	The hours	92
	After three photographs of Brassai	94
	The dun cow and the hag	96
	Elegy to the Sioux	98
	A grandfather's last letter	101
	The Ganges	104
	Elegy to the pulley of superior oblique	105
	Thomas Hardy	107
	Grand illusion	108
	You	113
	Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear	114
	Aubade of the singer and saboteur, Marie Triste	116
	The fox who watched for the midnight sun	120
	Comes winter, the sea hunting	122
	Double sphere, cloven sphere	126
	The composer's winter dream	128
	The night before Thanksgiving	132
	Ode to the spectral thief, alpha	133
	The parallax monograph for Rodin	136
	The world isn't a wedding of the artists of yesterday	139
	The scrivener's roses	141
	The circus ringmaster's apology to God	146
	Coleridge crossing the plain of jars	148
	Principia Mathematica : Einstein's exile in an old Dutch winter	150
	Lord Myth	153
	Not the cuckold's dream	155
	After spring snow, what they saw	157
	The everlastings	159
	An old woman's vision	162
	Several measures for the little lost	164
	Grandmother	166
	Pictures at an exhibition	167
	To a young woman dying at Weir	170
	Penelope	171
	Chemin de Fer	172
	Hummingbirds	173
	Elsinore in the late ancient autumn	174
	The open happens in the midst of beings	177
	At midsummer	179
	Parish	180
	Revelations	182
	Elegy for Wright & Hugo	184
	New England, springtime	186
	The elegy for integral domains	188
	Arkhangel'sk	190
	Nine black poppies for Chac	191
	The widow of the beast of Ingolstadt	193
	Meister Eckhart	194
	Dream	197
	The diamond persona	198
	La Pampa	200
	The funeral	201
	Sanctuary	202
	The duchesse's red shoes	204
	Danse macabre	208
	New England, autumn	209
	Through a glass darkly	210
	The trolley from Xochimilco	212
	The huts at Esquimaux	215
	Oration : half-moon in Vermont	217
	An annual of the dark physics	219
	The lion grotto	220
	The train	222
	Lamentations	224
	Old night and sleep	226
	Ars Poetica	227
	Baptismal	229
	Poem	230
	Trakl	231
	Jeremiad	233
	Groom Falconer	235
	Accident	237
	Fever	238
	Of politics, & art	239
	The apocrypha of Jacques Derrida	241
	The death of the race car driver	243
	The fish	244
	Buffalo clouds over the Maestro Hoon	245
	An American scene	247
	Northwind escarpment	249
	New age at airport mesa	250
	Shipwreck	252
	Safe conduct	254
	The saints of negativity	255
	The desert deportation of 1915	257
	Near the bridge of Saint-Cloud	258
	Amen	260
	Radio sky	261
	Coyote Creek	263
	Thomas Merton and the winter marsh	265
	Anagram born of madness at Czernowitz, 23 November 1920	266
	Tomb pond	268
	A true story of God	269
	Revelation 20:11-15	270
	A depth of field	271
	Looking up from two Renaissance paintings to the massacre at Tiananmen Square	272
	Confession	273
	The diatribe of the kite	274
	The evening of the pyramids	276
	A dream of three sisters	278
	Homage to Philip K. Dick	280
	Inside the city walls	282
	The bus stopped in fields of misdemeanor	283
	Two women on the Potomac Parkway	284
	Psalm XXIII	286
	A renunciation of the desert primrose	288
	A blue hog	289
	Margaret's speech	290
	Bellevue exchange	292
	Simple Philo of Alexandria	293
	November 23, 1989	295
	In the time of false messiahs	296
	A physical moon beyond Paterson	297
	The mercy seat	301
	Elegy for my brother	303
	At the death of a Mongolian peasant	305
	A skeleton for Mr. Paul in paradise	307
	A fifteenth-century zen master	309
	The caste wife speaks to the enigmatic parabolas	310
	Ghosts on the northern land of Ur	312
	After sky X	316
	The photographer's annual	317
	"Gently bent to ease us"	330
	Poem for my friend, Clare : or, with white stupas we remember Buddha	332
	Bells in the endtime of Gyurmey Tsultrim	334
	The clouds of Magellan (aphorisms of Mr. Canon Aspirin)	337
	A Genesis text for Larry Levis, who died alone	374
	The amulet	376
	"Somebody'll hav' to shoot ya down"	377
	For Milarepa, in Ruse, on rice paper	379
	On the Chinese abduction of Tibet's child Panchen Lama	381
	The shadows at Boxford	383
	The reader of the sentences:	385
	Last poem, snow tree	398