A New Selected Poems Book

	Author's Note
	First Song	3
	For William Carlos Williams	4
	Freedom, New Hampshire	5
	The Supper After the Last	9
	The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World	12
	The River That Is East	29
	To a Child in Calcutta	31
	For Robert Frost	33
	Poem of Night	37
	Middle of the Way	39
	Ruins Under the Stars	41
	Spindrift	43
	Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock	46
	Another Night in the Ruins	51
	Lost Loves	53
	Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond	54
	The Burn	56
	The Fly	57
	How Many Nights	58
	The Porcupine	59
	The Bear	63
	Under the Maud Moon	69
	The Hen Flower	74
	The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible	78
	Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight	83
	Lastness	87
	Fergus Falling	95
	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	97
	Saint Francis and the Sow	98
	Wait	99
	Daybreak	100
	Blackberry Eating	101
	Kissing the Toad	102
	On the Tennis Court at Night	103
	Looking at Your Face	105
	52 Oswald Street	106
	The Road Between Here and There	109
	Conception	111
	The Sow Piglet's Escapes	112
	The Olive Wood Fire	113
	The Frog Pond	114
	Prayer	116
	Fire in Luna Park	117
	Cemetery Angels	118
	First Day of the Future	119
	The Fundamental Project of Technology	120
	The Waking	122
	The Silent Evening	125
	The Tragedy of Bricks	129
	The Cat	131
	Last Gods	133
	Oatmeal	135
	The Perch	137
	When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone	139
	My Mother's R & R	153
	The Man in the Chair	154
	The Cellist	156
	Running on Silk	158
	Sheffield Ghazal 4: Driving West	160
	Sheffield Ghazal 5: Passing the Cemetery	161
	Parkinson's Disease	162
	Rapture	164
	Flies	166
	Neverland	171