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December 8 189 Delmore Schwartz 129 Dog 298 Dogs 229 Down River 236 Drinking Song 178 Easy Does It 30 Elegy for a 5,000-Year-Old Tree 282 Elegy for Oliver Sacks 166 Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and Her Child 190 Evening Song 135 Exchange of Gifts 271 Fantasy On a Goya Drawing 154 Fathers 193 February 246 Following the Saints 329 For Good Measure 205 For James Wright 361 For John Ashbery, September Song 82 For Malachai, Five Days Old 15 For Margaret 327 For W.S. Merwin 26 Forest Fires 109 Frivolity 5 Frog 337 Get Out 25 Glutton 226 God Poem 341 God’s Brother 129 Good Morning 38 Gratitude 119 374 Hannibal Crossing the Alps 292 Happiness 37 Hasty Pudding 90 Have a Heart, Kidney, Brain and Lung 362 Healing 112 Heart Work 262 Hermaphrodites in the Garden 291 Hot News, Stale News 288 Hotel Room Birthday Party, Florence 248 How I Came to Meet the Fates 10 How I Got Ted Roethke’s Raccoon-Skin Coat 289 I Choose 117 I Have Come to Jerusalem 267 I Sit Much with My Dog 186 I’m Sorry 17 Idling 137 In the Rain 212 In the Swim 19 Insomnia 116 It’s a Pity 94 Italy 95 January 2nd, 2018 56 Jerusalem: Easter, Passover 268 July 4 149 June 21, 2017 78 Just Born 34 Kangaroo 355 Krill 305 Lady of Turquoise 366
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Lear’s Wife 14 Lenin, Gorky and I 53 Letter to a Fish 183 Letter to a Poet 170 Letter to Alexander Fu, Seven Years Old 296 Letter to Laren 139 Letter to Noah 378 Letter to the Butterlies 48 Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet 312 Listening to Water 232 Lost Daughter 301 Lot’s Son 351 Lowell 304 March 21, First Day of Spring 41 Mocking Gods 190 Mon Père, Elegy for Paul Celan 308 Motto 70 Mr Trouble 199 Munich 2010 229 My Good Old Shirt 202 My Old Car 131 My Worm 88 Near Machpelah/Hebron 276 New Born 144 New Moon 319 Nicky 331 No Tear Is Commonplace 188 Now 192 Ode to Holy Places 84 Ode to Stella Halkyard, Rylands Librarian – Soon to Retire 57 Ode to the Scallop 74 On Trying to Remember Two Chinese Poems 299 On William Blake’s Drawing, ‘The Ghost of a Flea’ 238 Over Drinks 241 Pacemaker 185 Panda Song 368 Parable of the Book-Man 151 Parable of the Porcupine 41 Pasture 118 Pax Poetica 152 Peace 247 Photography Isn’t Art 352 Pilgrim Questions 143 Playing Soldier 130 Please 237 Pocket Mirror 49 Poem 141 Poem Before Marriage 346 Poem for Naomi 367 Poem of the Pillow 182 Poets at Lunch 219 Pollen 167 Post-Surgery Song 287 Postamble 369 Potato Song 349 Praise 275 Pratfall 363 Prayer for Zero Mostel 347 Prophecy I 289 Provincial Letter 91 Pub Crawl 27 375

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December 8 189 Delmore Schwartz 129 Dog 298 Dogs 229 Down River 236 Drinking Song 178 Easy Does It 30 Elegy for a 5,000-Year-Old Tree

282 Elegy for Oliver Sacks 166 Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and Her Child 190 Evening Song 135 Exchange of Gifts 271 Fantasy On a Goya Drawing 154 Fathers 193 February 246 Following the Saints 329 For Good Measure 205 For James Wright 361 For John Ashbery, September

Song 82 For Malachai, Five Days Old 15 For Margaret 327 For W.S. Merwin 26 Forest Fires 109 Frivolity 5 Frog 337 Get Out 25 Glutton 226 God Poem 341 God’s Brother 129 Good Morning 38 Gratitude 119

374

Hannibal Crossing the Alps 292 Happiness 37 Hasty Pudding 90 Have a Heart, Kidney, Brain and

Lung 362 Healing 112 Heart Work 262 Hermaphrodites in the Garden

291 Hot News, Stale News 288 Hotel Room Birthday Party,

Florence 248 How I Came to Meet the Fates

10 How I Got Ted Roethke’s

Raccoon-Skin Coat 289 I Choose 117 I Have Come to Jerusalem 267 I Sit Much with My Dog 186 I’m Sorry 17 Idling 137 In the Rain 212 In the Swim 19 Insomnia 116 It’s a Pity 94 Italy 95 January 2nd, 2018 56 Jerusalem: Easter, Passover 268 July 4 149 June 21, 2017 78 Just Born 34 Kangaroo 355 Krill 305 Lady of Turquoise 366

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