Table of Contents:
  • Double the digits
  • Landscape with desire
  • Bat boy, break a leg
  • Wild
  • On an Oregon mountain I remember the Hebrew mystics
  • Garlic
  • English 213 : introduction to poetry writing
  • '78 Chevy
  • Gravity hill
  • Letter to dad from New Danville, PA
  • Nights like this
  • Gettysburg, 1996
  • Winter riff
  • Sometimes it's easy to know what I want
  • Poetry in America
  • The baby screaming in the backseat
  • After birth, a conversation with myself
  • Mother with toddler in wartime
  • The materiality of language at Lincoln
  • This side of paradise
  • Swallows over Bellefonte
  • Veterans Day, Greene County, PA, 2004
  • The day
  • Francis, the wolf, a war, and terror
  • Cardio-kickboxing in a town of 6,000
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins on the 6 train
  • September's end
  • Years from now when you are weary
  • Hen
  • Westmoreland
  • Tissue balloon
  • Mrs. Bailey turns up for a poetry reading at Hemingway's CafĂ© in Pittsburgh
  • Across from Jay's book stall in Pittsburgh
  • Memorial Day, 1972
  • Feast of the epiphany
  • Elegy against
  • ---, ten years later
  • The girl in the backseat returns to Pittsburgh
  • The beauty line
  • Return to Bern
  • Oral tradition
  • Rachel on the threshing floor. Photograph ; Diary ; All things work together for the good for them that love the Lord ; Floating on the Lobsang
  • Summer of the 17-year cicada
  • Yehuda Amichai in late November
  • Hens and chicks.