Part I: My Dimension
Quiet Fountain
The End of My Career in Dance
Conundrum
My Checkered Past
Thank You for Thinking of You
I Almost Didn’t See
In The Rest of the World, the Worry
Is Very Big
Ice Storm
My Dimension
Elegy for the Dead Whom I Love
Self-Portrait after “Hotel Insomnia”
Johnny
The Caves at Bai Non Nuoc
Bill
The Room
My Life with Cats
Pastoral
My Mother Fading
One Lie
My Nymphomaniac
For My Neighbors
Self-Portrait in Third Person at
Fifty-Eight
Reunion
The Country That We Love
Elegy for Anna N.
The Way Dante Moved Virgil through Hell
Part II: My Waiting Brain
My Waiting Brain
Part III: Meditation after Prayer
Blues for Que Mai
On the Little Juniata River
The Abundance of Nothing
What the Matter Was
Paradise of Pain
For Penelope
When I’m Gone
The World Part I
This Boy
Elegy for Liam
What Are You Going To Do
Gate
Letter to L.
Beginning
Wrong
She Said ‘But it was Only a Small
Hurt’
Deer Cave Drawing…
A Little Place on the Beach
Response to ‘Why Don’t You Write
About Something Happy’
To No Spirits Speak
South Lorain Suite
The Father in Me
Apocryphal Weather
Roses for the Reader
The Future
Flash
Meditation after Prayer
Biographical Note