Flashboat Book

	Foreword	19
	Morning on the St. John's	25
	Leaving Water Hyacinths	27
	The Faithful	28
	Blind Girl	29
	For My Mother in Her First Illness, from a Window Overlooking Notre Dame	30
	Snow in the City	31
	Rock Climbing	32
	The Builder of Houses	35
	For a Very Old Man, on the Death of His Wife	38
	Bermuda	40
	For Thomas Hardy	41
	Practicing for Death	42
	Acceptances	45
	The Sundial	45
	The Graveyard	46
	The Racetrack	47
	In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman	48
	A Little Vesper	49
	Roman Dream	50
	These High White Walls	51
	In the House of the Dying	52
	My Young Mother	53
	The Figure on the Far Side	54
	Iron	55
	All the Leaves Were Green	56
	Letters	57
	The Weather of Six Mornings	58
	March	64
	Feathers	64
	Hunger Moon	65
	El Sueno de la Razon	66
	Back	67
	No More Elegies	68
	In Silence Where We Breathe	69
	Middle Age	70
	Coda	71
	Eve	78
	For a Boy Born in Wartime	79
	P.O.W.	80
	The Door	81
	a poem with capital letters	82
	Song	83
	The Urge To Tell the Truth	84
	Twins	85
	The Knowledge That Comes Through Experience	86
	Long View from the Suburbs	87
	After the Bomb Tests	88
	In a Room with Picassos	90
	Gaza	91
	Meteors	92
	A Bedside Rune	93
	Obligations	94
	Messages	125
	Poetry As Continuity	126
	After the Blackout (1965)	127
	Dream in Which the Routine Quality of My Imagination Is Fully Exposed	128
	Cemetery in Pernambuco: Our Lady of Light	129
	95[degrees]	130
	Holding Out	131
	Dispossessions	132
	Things	132
	Souvenirs	133
	Inheritances	134
	A Circle, a Square, a Triangle and a Ripple of Water	135
	Suicide Note	136
	A Nightmare of the Suburbs	137
	The Earthquake	138
	Pencil Sketch of Self & Other	139
	Waiting	140
	The Flashboat	143
	All These Dreams	145
	Scattered Words for Emily Dickinson	146
	S. Eliason 66: Double Portrait of Emily Dickinson and the Rev. Charles Wadsworth	147
	Evening Star (Georgia O'Keeffe)	148
	Olympic Rain Forest	149
	Starting with a Line from Roethke	150
	The River in All Lights, from an Upstairs Window	151
	Jittoku, Buddhist Mystic - 15th Century	152
	A Mission with the Night	153
	Rent	154
	Conversation by the Body's Light	155
	Praise	156
	The Blue Anchor	157
	Threads: Rosa Luxemburg from Prison	158
	Wronke, Spring 1917	158
	Breslau, November-December 1917	161
	Breslau, Spring 1918	165
	The Green Notebook	173
	Ordinary Detail	174
	My friend	175
	My Mother in Three Acts	176
	What the Seer Said	177
	Estrangement	179
	Long, Disconsolate Lines	180
	Mourning Picture	181
	For the Recorder of Suicides	182
	Nothing I Meant To Keep	183
	Bloodroot	184
	The Calling	185
	Hotel de Dream	189
	Mary Coldwell	191
	From the Journal Concerning My Father	192
	Childhood in Jacksonville, Florida	197
	The Hobby Lobby	198
	Class	200
	Wanda's Blues	201
	The Past	202
	Being Southern	203
	Seventeen Questions About King Kong	205
	Clementene	207
	How Can I Speak for Her?	209
	The Infusion Room	215
	The Children's Ward	218
	The Winter Road	233
	Vocation: A Life: Suite Based on Four Words from Willa Cather	237
	Desire	237
	Romance	240
	Possession	242
	Unfurnishing	246
	Notes	251
	Acknowledgments	257
	Index	259