See You in the Dark: Poems

Contents

contents Acknowledgments ix Greeting 3 I Pink Tree 7 First Fig at Fifty 8 The Impossible Dream 9 Refugees 10 Carol the Witch 11 Written on Waking 12 Flu 13 Trail 15 Untranslatable 16 Pickles 17 Reading the Hair 18 Saint Alexius’s Mother 20 Everything Is Evaluated 22 Sleeping with Him 23 Butterfly in the Lecture Hall 24 II How to Approach a New Idea 27 The Second Grade Visits the Art Museum 29 Projections 30 Ars Poetica, or Soup 31 Repotting 33 So You Want to Be a Druid 34 Man with Unspoken Words 35 TraumaMan 36 Man . . . According to the Movies 37 Woman . . . According to the Movies 38 Two from Catullus 39 Shrinking Verlaine 40 Alternate Histories 43 The Boy Obsessed 44 III Love’s Outlaws 49 Emotion 50 Not Quite Missed Connections, Craigslist.org 51 The Girdle 52 Cement Backyard 53 Not Quite Gone 54 The Afterlife 56 A Very Lavish Wedding 57 Chewing Thread 58 Conjecturing 59 Thank You Note 60 Consider Pain 61 A Moment’s Peace 62 Wind Dummy 63 Winter Soldier 64 IV Significant Cities 69 Watching Them Go 70 Hurricanes 71 In Between 72 On My Knees 73 Ecstasy 74 To the Younger Lover 75 Lights Out 76 The Key 77 Christmas Cactus 78 V Sleeping Dancers 81 Coda 83 Sarah and Jack Dancing in 1959 87 Near November 88 Notes 91 ...