Words Brushed by Music: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Poetry Series Book

	Foreword
	Song of the darkness	1
	Villanelle : "we're dancing now..."	2
	Talking big	3
	The touch	4
	Love and fame	5
	What Ellen said	6
	1938	8
	Turning in bed	10
	That's a nice leg	11
	Talking with Charlot	12
	I am just the same	13
	Roses	14
	Funny face	15
	How mother is	16
	Mystery baseball	17
	Sleeping parents, wakeful children	19
	The living room	21
	Bedtime song	23
	In defense of Forest Lawn	24
	Entropic villanelle	26
	D. W. Richmond gives directions to the architect of his tomb	27
	The Joycelin Shrager poem : I am just a plain poet	29
	The Joycelin Shrager poem : something people don't realize	32
	The Joycelin Shrager poem : I who have gone through the whole gamut	33
	The Joycelin Shrager poem : minor poets are human too	34
	The Joycelin Shrager poem : bowling has been the great spirit	35
	The Joycelin Shrager poem : when I am sick science fiction	36
	On Spadina avenue	38
	Life of a salesman	40
	Eden	42
	Riding skills	44
	The dog and the word	45
	Danes and wolfhounds	46
	Blue wine	47
	The cable-car	52
	The patch of garden	53
	Piano interlude	54
	Special sessions	55
	From a house party	56
	Suite for all clowns' day	57
	The minor poet	61
	Birdsong of the lesser poet	62
	Mr. Mahoney	63
	Survivor's ballad	64
	You can take it with you	65
	The blue-eyed exterminator	66
	Woman in rain	67
	Twelve dead, hundreds homeless	68
	Veterinarian	69
	The animals you eat	70
	On being accused of wit	71
	Ambition	72
	Jimmy Harlow	73
	Death of a first child	74
	A curse on a thief	76
	Maples in January	77
	A burial at Shanidar	78
	E.S.L.	80
	Making faces	83
	Flying heads	87
	Stanzas after endgame	88
	Departing words to a son	93
	A modest boast at meridian	95
	The shooting	96
	Raking leaves	97
	In the waking	99
	A cage in search of a bird	100
	A bird in search of a cage	101
	The stone crab : a love poem	102
	I remember, I remember	104
	603 Cross River Road	106
	A child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953	110
	Haying	112
	The Ferris wheel	114
	Elderly lady crossing on green	116
	A note of thanks	117
	Learning the bicycle	119
	A winter's tale	120
	Watching you sleep under Monet's water lilies	121
	With our wives in late October	122
	For the pause before we decorate the tree	124
	Waiting for you with the swallows	126
	Words to accompany a leaf from the great copper beech at coole	127
	Listening to Fats Waller in late light	129
	The world below the window	131
	Pidgin pinch	132
	Now touch the air softly	133
	Morels	135
	Journey to the interior	137
	The shipwreck	138
	Galileo galilei	139
	Villanelle	140
	American primitive	141
	The ten	142
	Still life	143
	Mr. Smith	144
	Blind in his sorrow	146
	Three songs for my daughter	147
	My clothes	149
	Recommendations	150
	Glory learnt from roses	151
	Neilsen	152
	Aurora	153
	Beatitudes, while setting out the trash	154
	Portrait of the artist as a young child	155
	Pacific rim	157
	Elegy	158
	Hush	159
	Mote	160
	Tree service	162
	Message	164
	Self-portrait	166
	Drumcliffe : passing by	167