Ladder of Hours: Poems 1969-2005 Book

	On this side	1
	First memory	3
	You dropped something	4
	Ladder of hours	5
	May 19, 2003	6
	In traffic	7
	Czeslaw Milosz	8
	Elegy for student days	9
	The view	10
	In us lakes are drying	12
	Poem (looking at this valley)	14
	Black leaves	16
	The feather	18
	Inside work	20
	Pollock's Number 1	21
	The impossible bouquet	22
	Whose requiem is the rain	23
	The return	24
	Poem (it waits at the end)	25
	The pen and ink trees at five o'clock	26
	The somnambulist blue	27
	Something about the stars	28
	Poem (the letter)	29
	Dusk	30
	The famous future	31
	In October	32
	Begin here	34
	First snow	35
	At the grave of Santa Claus	36
	All through childhood	37
	The wall of light	39
	When I connect	41
	For Gail	42
	Listening to music	43
	You again	46
	Nineteen sixty-five	49
	Bowery savings	51
	Night's silence	53
	Poem (tired tonight)	58
	Self-portrait in pigshit	60
	Guard in a cornfield	63
	Labor Day	64
	Johnny Unitas	65
	Piero Manzoni	66
	For Mary Hackett	68
	In Matera	70
	Suitcase full of tears	73
	Homecoming	74
	Indian summer garden party	75
	Hourglass	76
	The hitchhiker	77
	I read the poem	78
	An old story	79
	Treasure Island	81
	Letter to Y	86
	Louise	87
	The cold I caught at the funeral	88
	I am glad	90
	A night like this	92
	Cerveteri	93
	Bread and rain	94
	Letter to an ancestor	96
	Landscape	97
	Black man fishing in the Potomac basin	98
	Revolution in the air	99
	February	100
	The Buddhas	102
	Take a number	106
	In the Museum of Natural History	107
	Notebook	108
	In another life	109
	Poem (I felt nothing)	111
	Hitchhiking	112
	Winter dawn	113
	Alba	115
	Toy soldiers	116
	Little elegy	117
	Meditation in the park	118
	Rain	120
	Working in winter	121
	Poem (across gravel that has lost)	122
	Working alone	123
	Secret of the alphabet	125
	Some nights	127
	Shadow play	129
	Alchemy	130
	Four poems	131
	There	136
	Lullaby	137
	As if	138
	The doorway	140
	Vezelay	141
	Chartres	143
	Poem (recklessness is beauty)	144
	In the city	145
	Too young to sleep	147
	At the art students league	149
	Nothing's changed	153
	That's all	154
	The glass	155
	Paperweight	156
	Unfinished poems	158
	Publication	160
	Forgive me	161
	Poem (projected on the wall of heaven)	162
	When the air rushes in	163
	On breaking a chain letter	164
	Poem (in the "real world")	165
	A voice	166
	After the call	168
	Tightrope	169
	Bright shadow	170
	Poem (you who are carrying this book)	171
	Last entry	172