Insomnia Diary

Contents

Contents Bottom of the ocean 1 Small purchase 3 The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day 5 Dropping the euphemism 7 Calling him back from layoff 10 My life with a gardener 12 Meeting Bill 13 An old story 15 The documentary art 16 Becoming bird 18 Another awkward stage of convalescence 20 The bald truth 22 After working sixty hours again for what reason 23 Oath to my former life 25 Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone 27 Insomnia diary 29 Go Greyhound 32 Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz 35 Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon 36 Tuesday’s walk 38  40 American Studies 42 Sur Coast diary 44 Capital crime 46 Now and then I am direct 51 Growing at the speed of fashion 53 Bars poetica 56 Translator’s note 57 Echo 60 Mortal shower 62 Meteor shower 65 Building a painting a home 66 Commission by attrition 68 Goodbye in the shape of a knot 71 The edge 73 Radical neck 74 It’s not so much the heat as the stupidity 77 Cure for the common cold 78 Cutting edge 80 Truth about love 81 Shopping at the ocean 83 Acknowledgments 85 Insomnia Diary ...