Ballistics: poems

Brightly colored boats upturned on the banks of the Charles --

Searching --

High --

The four-moon planet --

Evasive maneuvers --

August --

The poems of others --

Aubade --

No things --

The first night --

January in Paris --

Ballistics --

Pornography --

Greek and Roman statuary --

Quiet --

Scenes of hell --

Hippos on holiday --

Carpe diem --

Lost --

Dublin --

New Year's Day --

The day Lassie died --

Tension --

The golden years --

Vermont, early November --

The effort --

The lamps unlit --

China --

Looking forward --

(detail) --

Le Chien --

Addendum --

On the death of a next-door neighbor --

Separation --

Adage --

The flight of the statues --

Passivity --

Ornithography --

Baby listening --

Bathtub families --

Despair --

The idea of natural history at Key West --

The fish --

A dog on his master --

The great American poem --

What love does --

Divorce --

Liu Yung --

This little piggy went to market --

Old man eating alone in a Chinese restaurant --

The breather --

Oh, my God! --

The mortal coil --

The future --

Envoy.