The woman I kept to myself: poems

Seven trees

Family tree

Samán

Weeping willow

Maple, oak, or elm?

Arborvitae

Locust

Last trees

The woman I kept to myself

Intimations of mortality from a recollection in early childhood

Anger & art

El fotógrafo

The red pickup

Spic

All-American girl

Bellevue

Abbot Academy

By accident

Vain doubts

First muse

Lunch hour, 1971

Heartland

Bad-weather friends

Sisterhoods

Reunion

My bottom line

Love portions

Fights

Tone

Hairbands

Manholes

Canons

My kind of woman

Museo del hombre

Ars politica

Naming the animals

The animals review pictures of a vanished race

Why don't we ever see Jesus laughing?

Addison's vision

Winter storm

The therapist

Disappearing

Gaining my self back

That moment

Signs

Deathdays

All's clear

Now, when I look at women

At the GYN

Grand baby

Life lines

Spring, at last!

Regreso

In Spanish

You

Leaving English

Meditation

Aficionados

Touching bottom

Cleaning ladies

Tom

I dream of Allen Ginsberg

Famous poet, years afterward

Why I teach

Undercover poet

Small portions

"Poetry makes nothing happen"?

Reading for pleasure

Direct address

Passing on

Keeping watch

El sereno

Looking up

What we ask for

What was it that I wanted?

Keeping watch

Why I write

Did I redeem myself?