Blue Dusk: New & Selected Poems, 1951-2001 Book

	New Poems 2001
	Going Back to the Convent	5
	Shackleton	6
	On Western Avenue behind a Horse-and-Buggy	8
	Through a Silver Screen	9
	Clematis montana	11
	Visiting Sunday: Convent Novitiate	12
	Almanac	14
	Elegy for Arnold	15
	The Paradise Tree	17
	Surgery Waiting	18
	Still Life	19
	Balancing Acts	21
	Memory Tract	23
	Metempsychosis	25
	Woman Locked in a Memorial Museum	27
	To Marilyn Monroe Whose Favorite Color Was White	28
	Scarecrow Gardens	30
	Peregrine Falcons in the Bank Tower	31
	Widows Riding Amtrak	33
	Sapphires in the Mud	35
	Hanging the Blue Nuns	37
	Double Dutch	38
	Vermeer's A Woman Holding a Balance	40
	from From the Darkroom 1964
	Requiem Mass: Convent Cemetery	45
	A Kind of Resurrection	47
	Nuns in the Quarterlies	48
	The Outsider	49
	Antique Convent Parlor	50
	Skid Row	51
	Long Day's Journey into Bloomington	52
	Matinal	54
	Whitsunday Office	55
	From the Darkroom	56
	from When Sky Lets Go 1978
	Baroque Lament	59
	The Shell	60
	In the Hellgate Wind	61
	The Family Group	62
	The Odd Woman	63
	Letter to an Absent Son	65
	A Woman Possessed	66
	Psalm for a New Nun	68
	Existing Light	69
	Driving Home	71
	Nights of flint and snow	73
	With a Bottle of Blue Nun to All My Friends	74
	Hope Diamonds	76
	from Magpie on the Gallows 1982
	Slow-Motion Elegy for Kathy King	81
	Portofino	83
	Extended Outlook	84
	Hanging the Pictures	85
	The day you were leaving	86
	The Register	87
	Phobias Incorporated	89
	Aladdin Lamp	91
	Sanding the Chairs	92
	Beetle Light	93
	Picking Youngberries on Mr. Harvey's Land	95
	Keeping Up with the Signs	96
	Gold Ring Triad	97
	from The Light Station on Tillamook Rock 1990
I.	The Geologist's Map	101
II.	Power Failure	103
IV.	Sounding the Ocean	105
V.	The Return from New England	107
VI.	Breaching the Rock	109
IX.	The Columbarium: Everlasting Consideration	111
XII.	Geography as Warning	113
XVI.	Counting the Winter Dead	116
XVII.	The Book of Sediments	118
	from Imaginary Ancestors 1991
	Stages of Family Life	125
	Honesty	127
	Grandmother Grant	128
	On My Father's Side	130
	Clare of Assisi	131
	Gilbert of Sempringham	133
	The Woman with Fabled Hair	135
	Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)	137
	Galileo's Case Reopened (1564-1642)	139
	Sister Maria Celeste, Galileo's Daughter, Writes to a Friend	140
	Modern Primitives	141
	The Giraffe Women of Burma	143
	Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins	145
	Greta Garbo and the Star Messenger	148
	Maria Callas, the Woman Behind the Legend	149
	George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans Cross)	151
	from Possible Sibyls 1991
	The Stirrups	155
	Crossarms	157
	In the middle of Priest Lake	159
	Blueprints	160
	Living by the Water	161
	Beside Mill River	163
	Dialogue Partly Platonic	164
	In the locker room	165
	Spiritual Exercises	167
	What I mistook for heather	169
	Shadegrown Tobacco	170
	In the Whirlpool	172
	The Widows of Mykonos	174
	Hagios Panaghiotes: The Church in Tolon	175
	The Garden of Botanical Delights	177
	Acknowledgments	183
	About the Author	185