57 N O T E S “Reform, Missouri”: Give their hearts to the winds of the abyss is a loose translation of a phrase from René Char’s Leaves of Hypnos. No incident but sorrow is from Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis. “Blind King”: The italicized phrases are from King Lear except for Before I got my eyes put out, which is the first line of an Emily Dickinson poem. “The General”: The one landscape that we, the subconscious ones, hope will blow away refers to Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone” and I didn’t want him on that train, need him on that train echoes Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. “There’s something quieter than sleep”: The title is a line from a Dickinson poem. “Permanent Collection”: The drain cover with image of Laocoon is a sculpture by Chris Morrey, one of a pair titled “Drain Snakes.” “The Gallow Ball (1950)”: Painting by Grace Hartigan. “Reasons for Living Happily”: Francis Ponge said that one should be able to give all poems this title. “Spiritual Exercises”: The italicized phrases are from Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. ...