Amulet Songs: Poems Selected and New Book

	Introduction	1
	The Traveling Out	11
	Country School	13
	Certainties	15
	Long Ago	16
	Portrait with Lemon Leaves	18
	Desert Almanach	20
	The Lonely Neighbor	22
	Celebration	23
	A Treaty of Liberation	24
	In Memory of Certain Sapphire Flowers	26
	A Wedding Near Pilar	28
	In the Parish of Christo Rey	30
	After Van Gogh	31
	Whisper for a Daughter	32
	As in Tibet	33
	Anita with White Lilacs	35
	For Fanny Lou Hamer	37
	Good Night	39
	We Are All Walking the Same Road	40
	An Obscure Way and a Clearing	45
	At the Cave Mouth	47
	"The Heart Determines"	50
	Geranium Flame	52
	The Twelve Dancing Princesses	54
	Impatience Is a Flower	57
	Weather Before Women	58
	Dark by Dark Is Taken	60
	After the Garden	62
	When the People Are Avenues	64
	Flight #	65
	On the Night of the Day the World Ends	67
	Consolation	68
	The Village Anna	69
	The Society of Anna	73
	Note	87
	Cerro Gordo Dreams	88
	As One Gull Holds the Sky	90
	The Undistinguished	92
	Crudites	94
	Homestead	95
	The Ripening Light	97
	Sari	98
	Response to a Night Wind	100
	On a Phrase by Camus	101
	Painting with Child	103
	A Dream of Peaches	104
	From the Loom of Juniper Woman	108
	There Will Be One to Focus On	110
	Before the Light Is Steady	112
	At Pilar for K.	114
	"Exposed on the Cliffs of the Heart"	115
	Juniper After Rain	117
	Wild Geese	119
	Parade	121
	Weaver, Weave Sun	123
	With Horror, Sir, Sincerely	124
	Lovers' Warning	127
	The Day the Decision Was Taken	130
	Squirrel	131
	The Fox and the Flood	133
	When You Sleep You Grow	134
	Shiprock	137
	The Level Eye	139
	Juniper for Our Sakes	141
	The Sybil at Market Time	143
	The Great Are Called	144
	Akhmatova	147
	No Lineage But Light	149
	Your Face with Tiger Lilies	151
	The Breaking Apart	153
	To The Approaches	154
	Only	156
	To Become a Dancer	157
	Amulet Songs	159
	You	161
	The Last Day	162
	Papyrus	167
	"Arduous Times"	169
	L'Ecole des Reves Joyeux	171
	On the Day After (in memory of E. M. S.)	175
	The Red Pear Tree	176
	Here Lies	177
	Two Views from the Sangre de Cristos	179
	Only God Knows	181
	Essence	183
	Advice from a Spinster	185
	Nettles	186
	Outcome	187
	Mateo I	188
	Mateo II	190
	Mateo III	191
	"Je Reponderai"	192
	The pink Madonna	194
	History Lesson	195
	After the Siege of Leningrad	197
	Profile	199
	Remembering Srebrenica	200
	Crossing into Zaire	201
	Child, I beg you to remember bells	202
	Black in the Snow as a Dancing Slipper	203
	Be Valiant	205
	Barley's Map	206
	Juniper Reaches Out	207
	The Mesa We Climbed	208
	Smike	210
	Rilke's Angels	212
	Remembering N. in the Field	214
	Pretend You Give Me Your Hand	215
	Goodbye	216