Seven Notebooks: Poems Book

Blueberry Notebook

Ode to Inspiration 3

Form 4

January 8 (Blueberries) 6

Ode to the Plantar Fascia 8

January 17 (Krome Avenue) 10

Ode to a Can of Schaefer Beer 17

Ode to Bureaucrats 21

January 22 (Specimens) 24

Basho 27

February 3 (Workshop) 28

Ode to Blueberries 30

February 16 (Paradise) 34

Lincoln Road 35

Neruda 37

Dahlias 39

Civilization Notebook

Time 43

March 10 (Barbarians) 45

Now 49

The Past 50

March 15 (History) 53

March 18 (Origins) 56

Phoenix 57

Egyptology 59

Papyrus Notebook

March 29 (Early Spring) 63

Rilke 64

April 4 (Ideas) 65

Existence 66

Consciousness 68

Rilke and God 69

3 a.m 70

April 13 (Lilies) 71

April 20 (Texts) 73

Dim Sum 74

Sleep 76

April 26 (Meanwhile) 77

Invitations 78

Papyrus 79

May 12 (Rhetoric) 82

Homage to Syntax 84

Forms of Attention 86

May 23 (Dreams) 87

June 1 (Civilization) 91

Late Spring 93

Dawn Notebook

Dawn 99

June 28 (Dawn) 100

Early July 103

The Beach 104

July 3 (Rays) 105

July 9 (Dawn) 106

Reading Walt Whitman at Dawn 110

Beauty 111

July 14 (Surfing) 112

Questions 114

The Beach 117

Zodiac Narrative 118

Days of Late July 119

Late July, After Three Days of Rain 120

July 31 (Issa) 121

Night Thoughts 125

August 126

August 5 (Tristesse) 127

Philadelphia 128

August 8 (Half-Day Blues) 129

Consolation 132

Mid-August 133

August 16 (Haiku) 134

August 21 (Coquinas) 137

Surfers 139

Late August 140

The Past 142

August 27 (Starlings) 143

End of August, Dawn 145

Sunset 147

Hurricane Notebook

September 2 (Misery) 151

Jacks 152

Humility 153

September 10 (Money) 154

September 11 156

Order and Disorder168

September 24 (Deconstruction) 170

Po Chu-i 171

Luxury Notebook

Luxury 175

Eclogue 176

October 7 (Sponges) 180

October 15 (Archimedes) 181

Hiroshige 183

The Leatherback 187

November 3 (The Spot) 189

The Toad 190

November 12 (justice) 195

Storm Valediction 198

Astral Notebook

The Indivisibles 203

Middle Age 205

Then 206

December 6 (Years) 208

The Work 215

The Future 217

Stars 219

December 30 (The World) 221