Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems Book

	The Buddhist painter prepares to paint	3
	Reflexive	6
	November : Indian summer	7
	Purana, meaning once upon a time	11
	Naming for love	13
	Adolf Eichmann	15
	Bunting dawn	19
	Freedom and discipline	20
	Selected haiku	25
	Concerning necessity	29
	The ravine	31
	Once more	32
	The cows at night	34
	Emergency haying	36
	The birds of Vietnam	39
	Abandoned ranch, big bend	42
	The loon on forrester's pond	45
	August first	47
	Essay	49
	The joy and agony of improvisation	50
	Essay on stone	52
	John Dryden	55
	Johnny Spain's white heifer	60
	Marshall Washer	64
	The poet	73
	On being asked to write a poem against the war in Vietnam	77
	Regarding chainsaws	79
	Song of the two crows	83
	The oldest Killed Lake in North America	89
	Sometimes when lovers lie quietly together, unexpectedly one of them will feel the other's pulse	93
	The impossible indispensability of the Ars Poetica	94
	Of distress being humiliated by the classical Chinese poets	96
	Survival as Tao, beginning at 5:00 A.M.	97
	"Sure," said Benny Goodman	99
	Pa McCabe	103
	Pray you young woman	106
	Assignment	107
	Birthday cake	111
	Testament	113
	Ecstasy	115
	Prepare	116
	Because I am	121
	The sound	122
	Dearest M -	123
	Saturday morning in mundane Munnsville	138
	Saturday was the first day of the new millennium	139
	Elegance	140
	Letter to Denise	141
	The new quarry	142
	Springtime, 1998	145
	Selected haiku	147
	Fanfare for the common man, no. 2	151
	Adoration is not irrelevant	152
	Two poets	154
	Navel	155
	On being marginalized	156
	Complaint and petition	157
	The little girl who learned the saving way	159
	Two white stones	160
	February morning	162
	Small fundamental essay	164
	A few dilapidated arias	165