The Caged Owl: New & Selected Poems Book

	Heart	5
	Here	6
	(Trauma) Storm	7
	Screaming Out Loud	8
	Tin Cup	9
	Bolt from the Blue	10
	What I'm Saying	13
	The River	14
	Paradise	15
	Some Part of the Lyric	16
	Some Notes on Shadows	17
	The Journey	26
	Fall	28
	Two Poems about Nothing	29
	Nothing and the Incident in the Streets	31
	A Dream of Fifty	37
	Shaky Spectrum	38
	The Talk	39
	The Excavation	40
	If There's a God ...	42
	To My Father, Dying	44
	Celestial Desolations	45
	Best	46
	Wild Heart	47
	Paradise Lightning Dazzle	48
	Be-all	53
	Washing My Face	57
	Silence	58
	"Transients Welcome"	59
	The Girl with Eighteen Nightgowns	60
	The Doll	61
	Getting Dressed	62
	Manhattan Island Poem	63
	A Parable	64
	The Dinner	65
	The Bridge	66
	Love Poem	67
	The Room	68
	Making Beasts	69
	Poem to the Mother	70
	The Fast	71
	Going Out	72
	Lines Written in Dejection, Oklahoma	73
	Daffodil Poem	74
	Sleeping Alone in a Small Room	75
	October	76
	Trying to Sleep	77
	Singing the Pain Back into the Wound	78
	Poem	79
	Beginning	80
	Gathering the Bones Together	83
	A Life	86
	The Cage	87
	The Snail	88
	Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm	89
	The Hats	90
	Domestic Life	91
	The King of the Earthworms	93
	The Sweater	94
	A Large White Rock Called "The Sleeping Angel"	95
	All Morning	96
	The Builders	97
	Overtaken by Fog While Climbing	98
	Like Any Other Man	99
	The Lost Children	103
	Morning Song	107
	The Ditch	108
	Neighbors	110
	Work Gloves	111
	The Brave Child	112
	Adolescence	113
	Horses	114
	Sunday School Picnic: What Endures	115
	Walking Home after the First Encounter	116
	The Migrant Camps	117
	Memorial Day	118
	After a Death	119
	Driving Home after a Funeral	120
	Song of the Invisible Corpse in the Field	121
	Spring Floods	122
	In Haiti	123
	Song: Early Death of the Mother	126
	The Weeds	127
	A Half-Dead Black Cherry Tree across the Road from My Childhood House	128
	Three Songs	130
	There	132
	Beggar's Song	133
	Swamp Songs	134
	Indian Summer	135
	After the Guest	136
	Reading Late in the Cottage	137
	The Caged Owl	138
	Friday Lunchbreak	139
	Virginia Backyard: July	140
	On the Lawn at Ira's	141
	A Story Sassetta Paints	142
	Leaving the Asylum	143
	An Abandoned, Overgrown Cemetery in the Pasture near Our House	144
	We Must Make a Kingdom of It	147
	Poem in New York	148
	Visit to the Island of Lost Souls	150
	A Shelf Is a Ledge	152
	Poem	153
	Nantucket Morning/This World	154
	Chateaubriand on the Niagara Frontier, 1791	155
	Elegy	156
	Reverie	157
	The Pond	158
	November	159
	The Demonstration	160
	On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama	161
	Solitary Confinement	163
	Hotel St. Louis, New York City, Fall 1969	164
	The Trick	167
	Available Now: Archaic Torsos of Both Sexes	168
	Lucky	169
	After Botticelli's Birth of Venus	170
	The Fifth Month	171
	The Voyages	172
	The Hand: "Brightness Falls from the Air"	173
	Tableau Vivant	174
	The Teachers	175
	The Western Invention of Lyrical Nature	176
	A Field in New England	177
	A Song	178
	The Tree	179
	Origin of the Marble Forest	183
	A Litany	184
	A Moment	185
	Everything	186
	Elegy	187
	A Dark Night	188
	Who'd Want to Be a Man?	189
	The Vase	190
	Ala Mysterieuse	191
	The Gray Fox	192
	The Cliff	193
	Self-Portrait at Twenty	194
	Muse of Midnight	195
	Tristan and Iseult	196
	After Piero di Cosimo's Venus, Mars, and Amor	197
	Glukupikron	198
	Lament	199
	Investigation	201
	My Father's Voice	202
	The Gift	203
	Father's Song	204
	The City of Salt	205
	The Entrance to the Underworld	209
	When I first saw ...	210
	A snake ...	211
	His Lament	212
	If ...	213
	When I was alive ...	214
	I was moving ...	215
	When Eurydice saw him	216
	The Ghosts Listen to Orpheus Sing	217
	My body was never marred	218
	When they said ...	219
	In the cave mouth ...	220
	Once the two of us	221
	In the shadows ...	222
	His Grief	223
	Far below, plowed fields ...	224
	The Wedge	225
	His Dream: The Black Tree/Thirst	226
	Fields took on ...	227
	About the Author	229
	Index of Titles	231
	Index of First Lines	233