From the meadow Book

	The Condition
	How It Is	3
	Back from the Fields	4
	Dorothy	5
	Old Woman's Song	6
	At the Playground, Singing for Psychiatric Outpatients	7
	The Brother	9
	Drinking Cold Water	10
	Gray Poem	12
	The Marsh, New Year's Day	14
	The Coat	15
	Living by Water	19
	The Heavy Angel	20
	To Tlaloc of the Rain	21
	Home from Duck Marsh	22
	Hymn to the Sacred Birds	23
	Collecting the Animals	25
	Learning to Speak	27
	Perhaps It's as You Say	28
	The Gift	29
	It Was Autumn	33
	Routes	34
	The Burden of Decision	36
	Going	37
	We Meet in the Lives of Animals	38
	The Fish/Lago Chapala	40
	Thus He Left	42
	Counting	43
	How to Handle It	44
	Desire	45
	Late Hour	46
	In Torino	49
	The Dinner	50
	Perosa Canavese	51
	Sorting the Tools	57
	Distance	59
	Night Letters	60
	Failure	65
	Night	66
	This World Awakes to Silence	67
	Speaking of Accidents	71
	On Modern Travel	73
	From Station to Station	75
	Three Poems Never Written	76
	A Short Novel	78
	Poem for Two Voices	79
	First Star	83
	In the Last Days	84
	Nocturnal Self-Portrait	85
	I Dreamt	86
	A Story	87
	A Portrait	88
	Elegaic Fragments	89
	Poem Beginning with a Line from Leonardo Sinisgalli	92
	Lullaby	93
	From the Meadow	94
	The Heart	95
	Notes	97
	Acknowledgments	99