Springing: New and Selected Poems Book

	Old Jokes Appreciate	3
	Drunk & Disorderly, Big Hair	4
	Origin	6
	What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?	8
	Now Then	11
	Decorum, Reflection	12
	Ghosts of Narrative	13
	Metaphysics	16
	Quick It Can	18
	Rods & Cones, & The Statute of Limitations	20
	What Changes	22
	End of October	25
	Entranced	27
	Real Estate: Kripplebush, New York	29
	Crude Cabin, At the Brink of Quiet	30
	Out of Water	32
	Pathetic Fallacies Are Bad Science But	33
	Antepenultimate	35
	At the Botanical Gardens, University of British Columbia	36
	After-Image, Cortes Island	37
	My Word Is My Bond	39
	We Stand Our Ground	40
	Strong, Off Route 209	41
	Imagine That	42
	The First, At the Last	44
	Rain All Night, Paris	46
	A Visit	49
	Sensibility	50
	St.-Germain-des-Pres: Summer 1948	51
	Ritournelle, for Paris 1948	52
	Private and Profane	54
	Anniversary	56
	Pleasant Avenue	57
	"Ville Indigene": Afrique du Nord	60
	Sam Refuted, Respectfully	63
	Take Any Card	65
	Under a Routine Procedure	67
	Elegy for Elizabeth Bleecker Averell	68
	Gigue for Christmas Eve	69
	To Forbid Grief	70
	Because We Certainly Have Nothing Better to Do	71
	Survival	72
	Springing	73
	Dialogue of Nemo and Personne	74
	Explication de Texte	76
	The Crow Dressed in Peacock Feathers	78
	A Tale Told by Atheneus (Venus Callipygus)	79
	Symposium Holiday	80
	Last Resort	81
	"Luxuria," Dreamboat	82
	Half Full	83
	Out of the North: Two Views	84
	Take My Disproportionate Desire	89
	"Qu'ai-je a Faire en Paradis?"	90
	Matins & Lauds	91
	Possession	92
	Multipara Gravida 5	93
	Communion of Saints: The Poor Bastard Under the Bridge	94
	"'What Are You Doing Here, Stephen?'"	95
	Rockefeller the Center	96
	For a Divorce	99
	Basic Skills	103
	Residual Paralysis	104
	About My Birthday	106
	Bilingual	107
	Among Women	109
	From the Fountain at Vaucluse	110
	Ghost Writer	114
	The Differance: Chatou-Croissy	117
	Live Model	119
	Half-Life: Copies to All Concerned	121
	Unabashed	123
	As Is	124
	Late	125
	Of Certain Students	129
	For a Season	130
	Lullaby	131
	A Third Thank-You Letter	132
	Discovery	135
	Advice: Ad Haereditates (I)	137
	Gliding	141
	The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know	145
	On a Library of Congress Photo of Eunice B. Winkless, 1904	151
	The Problem of Freedom & Commitment	153
	The Problem of Fiction	154
	The Problem of Gratified Desire	156
	The Problem of Loving-kindness	157
	Wearing the Gaze of an Archaic Statue	158
	"Love Is Not Love"	160
	Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets	164
	Levels	166
	The Royal Gate	168
	Outside the Fertile Crescent	169
	Synthesis	170
	De-fusing the Usual Criminal Metaphors	171
	Jamaica Wildlife Center, Queens, New York	173
	The Ides of May	175
	Between	176
	Hard-Shell Clams	177
	Out of Eden	178
	Patient	179
	Museum out of Mind	180
	Call	183
	Friday Market	184
	Myopia Makes All Light Sources Radiant	185
	In Abeyance	187
	Analemmatic	189
	Take Time, Take Place	190
	"I've Been Around: It Gets Me Nowhere"	199
	Old Mama Saturday	201
	Northampton Style	203
	The Title's Last	204
	One Is One	205
	Pourriture Noble	206
	For My Old Self, At Notre-Dame	208
	The Border	210
	Separate, In the Swim	212
	The Story After the Story	214
	Roundstone Cove	216
	Reading a Large Serving Dish	217
	Analysis	219
	Two Questions	220
	Pre-Text	222
	Explores Cry Out Unheard	224
	Winter	225
	Oceans	226
	Even	227