Contents

I. Mode of the Orphan/Time to Die Breath-Manifester 15 Two Poems After Ronsard 16 Chattels (Civitas Dei) 18 Blaze 19 Equinox 20 Arrest 23 Florescens 24 Found Poem (Deity or Sacred Puma) 25 Three Songs For The Turning Year 26 Night 28 Opium & Death 30 Five Poems After Wang Wei 31 Bycatch 33 Mughal Shade 34 Fone World (Civitas Diaboli) 35 Ithaca 37 Song 38 Maker 39 Heaven 40 Clareaudience 41 Blue Skies 42 Double 43 On Reading A Treatise of Civil Power 44 To The Fates 45 Replying To Subprefect Zhang 46 Opening The Mouth 47 Dusk: An Antique Song 48