Listening Long and Late

Contents

Contents Song 1 I The Migration of the Turkey Buzzards 5 A Story Can Change Your Life 6 Another Spring 7 Sorrow Song 9 Of Zarathustra 10 Lines 12 Kiski Valley: Looking for Old Miners 13 Lament for the Dead Princes 14 Elegy for the Poet Charles Moulton 15 Even Friendship 16 Making the Circle 17 The Girl on the Bullard Overpass 18 Night Crawlers 20 Lessons 21 II The Beginning of Country Music 25 Orpheus Laments 27 Accordions 28 Lament 29 Prankster Song 30 One for the 5-String 31 The Banjo Dream 32 The Shirt 33 Rich Man 34 The Moment 35 To a Water Snake 36 Homage to Tu Fu 37 Concerning the Disappearance of the Nightingale 38 III. Traces Hear I am 43 the county highway 44 my five year old 45 in time 46 we ride a long time 47 they lost the grandfather 48 he felt confused 49 a cold overcast morning 50 the room was dark 51 the people in old photographs 52 in 1937 53 California was another one 54 you see them 55 IV After the Funeral 59 The Rag Rug 60 The Formula 61 To Po Chü-I 62 He Alone 63 Poem on my 79th Birthday 64 The Snake 65 The Canyon 66 Where Is That Road 67 The Train Station of Milan 68 Rain 69 Aubade in Autumn 70 Notes 73 Acknowledgments 77 Listening Long and Late ...