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Contents Acknowledgments xvii NEW POEMS 1 Annunciation 3 * In our child house 3 Nine 3 The girl 4 Mother 4 Eighteen 5 “She Sang” 6 A Bone Standing Up 6 The Hawthorn Robin Mends with Thorns 7 Out in a sailboat 7 I came to you 8 * Cousin 8 The Very Bad Horse 9 Once 9 So many secrets 10 Eleventh Brother 10 Once in the nights 10 Under the gold 11 The Windows 11 Go Clear 12 The Coin 13 October morning 13 I heard my left hand 13 In the evening 14 * We cut the new day 14 Occurrence of White 15 How have I hurt you? 15 Do flies remember us 16 You drew my head 16 The little, faintly blue clay eggs 17 Happiness (3) 17 Letter 18 I could never let go 19 The Basket House 19 The House and the World 20 In your eyes 21 Woman, Leaving 21 Trim my hoofs 21 Two Poems for Matthew Shepard 22 The Blue Dory, the Soul 22 The Rally 23 The Growing Christ of Tzintzuntzan 24 Sheep 24 To the Bardo 24 Rodney Dying (4) 25 * Door in the Mountain 25 Monarch butterfly 26 My old body 26 Inkwell daybreak 27 The path between 27 The Night Sea 27 The Shirt 28 One Foot in the Dark 28 A weed green 28 Fears: Night Cabin 29 so wild 29 I have lived in your face 30 A goldfinch in the rain 30 The grain of the wood 31 The push or fly 31 I would be 31 vi contents [54.242.220.142] Project MUSE (2024-04-10 07:15 GMT) Avalon 32 Do you remember? 32 Advent Calendar 32 We didn’t know each other 33 Touch with your finger 33 Noon in the Line Outside 34 Inside 34 Your number is lifting off my hand 34 * The Needle North 35 The Passing 36 In the Burning Air 36 Little house 37 * Notes 38 DREAM BARKER (1965) 39 First Love 41 For a Woman Dead at Thirty 41 Miles from Home 42 To Salter’s Point 43 Lines in Dejection 44 Sleep Drops Its Nets 45 Déjà-vu 45 Sunset at Wellfleet 46 Asleep over Lines from Willa Cather 46 Cambridge by Night 47 To a Friend 48 Waiting 49 Sasha and the Poet 50 The Second Dream 51 A Bride’s Hours 51 1. Dawn 51 2. The Bath 52 3. Night 52 Afterbirth 52 Sarah’s Christening Day 53 contents vii Tired of London 54 Cambridge, April 27, 1957 54 New York, April 27, 1962 55 September 1963 56 Riverside 57 For Teed 58 My Grandmother’s Watch 59 The Beast with Two Backs 60 The Little Flower 61 Sex 70 Adam and Eve: Poem on Folded Paper 71 Dream Barker 71 To My Soul 72 PILGRIMS (1969) 73 I The Couples 75 Fireside 75 Solomon 76 In the Museum 77 By the Boat Pond 78 The Summer House 78 Woods 80 Her dream: the child 80 Orpheus and Eurydice 81 Goodbye 82 Separation 83 Thinking about Cain 85 Dearest 86 II April 87 Broken-down Girl 87 Bin Dream, West College East, D-11 88 Bin Dream #2, Interview with Stravinsky 89 Death House 89 Archangel 90 Half an Hour 91 viii contents [54.242.220.142] Project MUSE (2024-04-10 07:15 GMT) Visiting Day at School 92 The Child Jung 93 Coltrane, Syeeda’s Song Flute 93 Photograph of Delmore Schwartz 94 The Torn-down Building 95 Moon Man 96 The Child and the Terrorist, The Terrorist and the Child 97 Night 98 Pilgrims 98 ORDINARY THINGS (1974) 101 I After Elegies 103 ‘Autumn Day’ 103 He said, 104 Forces 104 Kin 105 Anesthesia 105 After Elegies (2) 106 II 3 a.m. in New York 107 Space 107 Letter from a Country Room 108 A Child’s Death 109 Revolution 109 Three Voices One Night in the Community Kitchen 110 The Knife 111 Seeing L’Atalante 112 III “Twenty Days’ Journey” by Huub Oosterhuis, translated from the Dutch with Judith Herzberg 113 IV This Hate 118 This Minute 118 contents ix Couvre-Feu: after Paul Eluard 120 Fidelities 121 Susan’s Photograph 123 Outside the Frame 124 Forces (2): Song 124 * Notes 125 THE MESSENGER (1979) 127 Beka, 14 129 Dufy Postcard 129 The Field 130 Living Together 131 Here Now 132 The Forgiveness Dream: Man from the Warsaw Ghetto 133 Turn 134 Prayer...