Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser

Contents

C O N T E N T S Foreword by Mark Doty ix I Wanderer 3 Derecho Ghazal 4 My Love, I Want to Tell You of Today 5 Dear Epictetus, This is to You Attributed 6 How to Flinch 7 Landscape, with an End and a Beginning 8 Campus Elegy 9 Landscape, with Red Boots and a Branch of Dead Cherry 10 Boy 11 Why Appropriation Is Not Necessarily the Same as Mastery 12 Certified 13 With Feeling 14 Persistent Triolet 15 What You Don’t Always See 16 Appetite 17 Letter to Myself, Reading a Letter 18 Intercession 19 Closer 20 Wake 21 II Mondo Inteirinho 25 Anniversary 26 A Single Falling Note Above 27 Grenadilla 28 Saturday Afternoon at the Y 29 On the Nature of Things 30 Unbelievable Ends 32 In a Hotel Lobby, Near Midnight 34 Landscape, with Cardinal and Earring 35 Empty Ghazal 36 Letter to Providence 37 Letter to Arrhythmia 38 Letter to Levity 39 Interior, with Roman Shades and Lovers 40 Recursive 41 Taxonomies 42 Lover to Lover, Air 43 Imperfect Ode 44 Villanelle of the Red Maple 45 Love Poem with Skull and Candy Valentines 46 Landscape, with Remnants of a Tale 48 Landscape, with Darkness and Hare 49 Not Yet There 50 III Hum 53 Dumbwaiter 54 Spangled 55 Ghazal: Chimerae 56 I Write Letters to Some Other Sea 57 Improvisations 58 Fata Morgana 60 Aubade 61 Letter to Love 62 Landscape, with Mockingbird and Ripe Figs 63 Mobius 64 What Cannot Eat 65 Landscape, with Sudden Rain, Wet Blooms, and a Van Eyck Painting 66 Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser 67 Unending Lyric 68 Ghazal of the Transcendental 69 Night Heron, Ascending 70 The Wren in the Lilac Cycles through Its Songs at Breakneck Speed 71 Reprieve 72 Hallucinatorio 73 Acknowledgments 75 About the Author 76 The May Swenson Poetry Award 77 ...