Oblivio Gate

Contents

`o :fek\ekj Acknowledgments xi ( Cfj`e^Jfcfdfe Losing Solomon 3 Hippocampus 4 Thirty-Nine Years on the Job 6 Solomon’s Tool Shed 7 Montclair Vespers 9 Walking Bees 10 Wildfire Triptych 1 What the Smoke Brings 12 2 Roof Dancer 13 3 Variations on Sleep 14 Fainting at My Grandfather’s Funeral 16 ) FYc`m`f>Xk\ Oblivio Gate 21 * JfcfdfeËjGXc`dgj\jk Solomon’s Palimpsest 33 + N`j[fd Wisdom 45 The Gnome and I Catch Dawn 48 The Carpenter Bee 49 Self-Portrait as Tithonus 50 Self-Portrait as Aurora 51 o The Incident 52 Sundowning 53 Again, the Gnome and I Catch Dawn 55 Alzheimer’s 56 Heart of the Tyrant King 57 The Other Dream in Which He Is Weightless 58 Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths 59 Working and Singing 60 Elegy 62 September, North Fullerton Avenue 63 , J\c]$GfikiX`kj]ifdk_\N`[fn?flj\ Self-Portraits from the Widow House 1 Self-Portrait as the Scavenger Gull 67 2 Self-Portrait as the Reluctant Survivor 68 3 Self-Portrait as the Emptied Closet 69 4 Self-Portrait as the Last Person Living 70 5 Self-Portrait as Scarecrow 71 6 Self-Portrait as Carrier of the Earth 72 7 Self-Portrait as a Walking Monument 73 8 Self-Portrait as One Who Sleeps through the Night 74 9 Self-Portrait as Disaster 75 Notes 77 ...