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The Fish Answers 184 Snowbound 184 Pacemaker 185 I Sit Much with My Dog 186 Song of Jerusalem Neighbors 187 The American Dream 187 No Tear Is Commonplace 188 December 8 189 Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and Her Child 190 Mocking Gods 190 Now 192 Fathers 193 The Gambler 195 A Rose 197 Mr Trouble 199 Spit 200 My Good Old Shirt 202 Silence 202 Review 204 For Good Measure 205 9 Chocolates 207 The Seagull 209 Rejoicing 210 Song of Alphabets 211 In the Rain 212 Wild fl owers 213 A Blind Fisherman 213 Tell Me Pretty Maiden 214 The Ring in My Nose 216 Bone 217 To a Stranger 218 Poets at Lunch 219 Requiem 221 Big Left Toe 222 The Man Tree 222 Vanita s 223 Bad Joke 224 Song of No God 225 Glutton 226 The Icehouse and the Pond 226 Munich 2010 229 Dogs 229 Listening to Water 232
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That Morning 232 Autumn 234 Three Songs for a Single String 234 And There Are African Links/Licks in Every Language 235 Down River 236 Sleep 237 Please 237 On William Blake’s Drawing, ‘The Ghost of a Flea’ 238 Capriccio 239 Clouds 241 Over Drinks 241 The Wild Dogs of San Miguel De Allende 242 The Unicorn 243 The Hudson River 244 Anatomy Lessons 245 February 246 Peace 247 Anonymous Poet 248 Hotel Room Birthday Party, Florence 248 Then 250 Satyr Song 250 A Satyr’s Complaint 254 A History of Colour 256 Heart Work 262 To My Friend Born Blind 263 Song of an Imaginary Arab 264 Rainbows and Circumcision 266 I Have Come to Jerusalem 267 Jerusalem: Easter, Passover 268 A Guest in Jerusalem 270 Exchange of Gifts 271 The Louse 272 Work Song 273 Babies 274 Praise 275 Near Machpelah/Hebron 276 A Visit to the Devil’s Museum In Kaunas 277 Chinese Prayer 278 The Startling 279 Song of the Present 280 A Riff for Sidney Bechet 280 The Lost Brother 281 Elegy for a 5,000-Year-Old Tree 282

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The Fish Answers 184 Snowbound 184 Pacemaker 185 I Sit Much with My Dog 186 Song of Jerusalem Neighbors 187 The American Dream 187 No Tear Is Commonplace 188 December 8 189 Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and Her Child 190 Mocking Gods 190 Now 192 Fathers 193 The Gambler 195 A Rose 197 Mr Trouble 199 Spit 200 My Good Old Shirt 202 Silence 202 Review 204 For Good Measure 205 9 Chocolates 207 The Seagull 209 Rejoicing 210 Song of Alphabets 211 In the Rain 212 Wild fl owers 213 A Blind Fisherman 213 Tell Me Pretty Maiden 214 The Ring in My Nose 216 Bone 217 To a Stranger 218 Poets at Lunch 219 Requiem 221 Big Left Toe 222 The Man Tree 222 Vanita s 223 Bad Joke 224 Song of No God 225 Glutton 226 The Icehouse and the Pond 226 Munich 2010 229 Dogs 229 Listening to Water 232

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