The Nervous Filaments Book

Contents

Loveless, the Gravel....................3
Geology of the Lake Superior Basin....................4
Porcelain....................6
Wolf Spider....................7
Who But I, O Reckless Death....................9
Born Late....................11
A County Road....................12
Romantic....................14
The Pyramids....................16
Retribution....................18
The Seventies....................19
The Other Water....................21
I Am Never Going Back....................25
The Future of the Nomads....................27
Models Demand and Mutate....................29
Automatic Thank-You Kisses....................30
Worship of the Astonished....................31
Urn Like a Whorled Cocoon....................33
Lake Geneserath....................34
Our Bluest Skies....................35
Fidelity to Rapture....................36
Lake Cadillac....................38
Unpopular Film....................40
Mimicry....................42
Nervous Filaments....................44
Postcard: Cape May....................46
Contract Pleasure....................51
Wildlife....................54
Quality is Peculiar to Civilized Man....................55
Demonstrates Proper Reliance....................57
Tachycardia....................59
Meditation: Farm Pond....................61
Not a Landscape, Not a Teaspoon....................63
Not Therapy....................65
Them....................67
Tragedy of Species....................69
Heart-Shaped Recovery Poem....................70
To Hold in Such High Regard....................72
A Small Thing But My Own....................74
Sylvia Plath....................76
Minor Spring Fog....................78
The Historic District....................79
Wilderness....................81
Columbia River....................83