Contents
Contra Belly, 1
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Upon News of the Important Fossil, 3
BC Prospect, 4
Times Square the First Time, 5
My Favorite Bollywood Film, 6
About Your Delivery-Room Video on YouTube, 7
Polaroid Elegy, 8
Which One Day Would You Choose to Live Over Again?, 10
First Apartment Near St. Mary’s, 11
Our Nostos, 12
Found & Lost, 16
Improbable Rescue of the Heart, 17
Recovery, Gulf Coast, 19
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Instruction and Delight, 21
Upon Watching Once Again The Empire Strikes Back, 22
Adulescentia, 23
Airport-Uh-Oh Poem, 24
No, You Misheard, 25
Silent Couple at Rievaulx Abbey, 26
George Clooney, 27
We Strivers All, 28
July Fourth, with Vampires, 29
O Capolavoro, 31
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Psychomachia, 34
Three Citations on Our Nature, 35
Elysium, 36
Sonnet, 39
Summer Teaching at an Oxford College, 40
To David Hooker, 41
Discussing Social Media with Her, 42
Beginning of an Elegy, with iPad, 43
At a Cabin Near Barronvale Bridge, 44
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Artes Liberales, 46
Memento Mori, with Summer Fair, 48
Request Overheard on a Car Radio, 49
Meditation on “In Memoriam,” 50
The State We’re In, 51
The Tree Felled, The Tree Raised, 52
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Happiness, Carolina Highway, 54
Quiet Ars Poetica, 55
Alternative Titles for the Book You Are Holding in Your Hands, 57
Lexical Reverie, 59
Spatulamantic, 60
On Leonardo’s “Figures to Represent Labor,” 61
Avery da Vinci, Our Lady of the Western Suburbs, 62
Missive, 63
On Stanley Spencer’s Travoys with Wounded Soldiers, 64
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From a Plane Window West of San Diego, 69
Good Night, 70
The Opposite of ‘Lov’, 71
For a Young Software Designer, Who Never Sleeps, 72
Looking Back on the Era of YouTube, 73
On the Way to Where We’re Going, 74
On the Numbness That Will Be Our Future, 76
Passing Thought on Apocalypse, 77
Horatian Valediction, 79
notes, 80
