Springing: new and selected poems

New poems. Old jokes appreciate

Drunk & disorderly, big hair

Origin

What would you like to be when you grow up?

Now then

Decorum, reflection

Ghosts of narrative

Metaphysica

Quick it can

Rods & cones, & the statute of limitations

What changes

End of October

Entranced

Real estate : Kripplebush, New York

Crude cabin, at the brink of quiet

Out of water

Pathetic fallacies are bad science but

Antepenultimate

At the botanical gardens, University of British Columbia

After-image, Cortes Island

My word is my bond

We stand our ground

Strong, off Route 209

Imagine that

The first, at the last

Rain all night, Paris

Uncollected poems, 1946-1971. A visit

Sensibility

St.-Germain-des-Prés : summer 1948

Ritournelle, for Paris 1948

Private and profane

Anniversary

Pleasant Avenue

"Ville indigène" : Afrique du nord

Sam refuted, respectfully

Take any card

Under a routine procedure

Elegy for Elizabeth Bleecker Averell

Gigue for Christmas Eve

To forbid grief

Because we certainly have nothing better to do

Survival

Springing

Dialogue of Nemo and Personne

Explication de texte

The crow dressed in peacock feathers

A tale told by Atheneus (Venus Callipygus)

Symposium holiday

Last resort

"Luxuria," dreamboat

Half full

Out of the north : two views

From True minds, 1956. Take my disproportionate desire

Qu'ai-je à faire en Paradis?

Matins & lauds

Possession

Multipara gravida 5

Communion of saints : the poor bastard under the bridge

What are you doing here, Stephen?

Rockefeller the Center

From Admit impediment, 1981. For a divorce

Basic skills

Residual paralysis

About my birthday

Bilingual

Among women

From the fountain at Vaucluse

Ghost writer

The différance : Chatou-Croissy

Live model

Half-life : copies to all concerned

Unabashed

As is

Late

Of certain students

For a season

Lullaby

A third thank-you letter

Discovery

Advice : ad haereditates (I)

Gliding

The great dead, why not, may know

From The green dark, 1988. On a Library of Congress photo of Eunice B. Winkless, 1904

The problem of freedom & commitment

The problem of fiction

The problem of gratified desire

The problem of loving-kindness

Wearing the gaze of an archaic statue

Love is not love

Hangzhou, lake of the poets

Levels

The royal gate

Outside the Fertile Crescent

Synthesis

De-fusing the usual criminal metaphors

Jamaica Wildlife Center, Queens, New York

The ides of May

Between

Hard-shell clams

Out of Eden

Patient

Museum out of mind

Call

Friday market

Myopia makes all light sources radiant

In abeyance

Analemmatic

Take time, take place

From The bird catcher, 1998. I've been around : it gets me nowhere

Old Mama Saturday

Northampton style

The title's last

One is one

Pourriture noble

For my old self, at Notre-Dame

The border

Separate, in the swim

The story after the story

Roundstone Cove

Reading a large serving dish

Analysis

Two questions

Pre-text

Explorers cry out unheard

Winter

Oceans

Even.