The Book of Seventy

Contents

ContentS ฀i Approaching Seventy 3 Stream-Entering 10 Insomnia 11 Lymphoma 12 The Surgeon 13 In Sickness and Health 14 Neurologist 15 Family: Attempted Speech 16 West Fourth Street 17 Late Winter Rain 18 ฀ii Desire and Joy 21 The Married Man 22 The Plateau 23 Our Dead Friend 24 Sonnetina: The Storm 26 Heaven 27 Honey of Generation 28 ฀iii The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog 31 Apollo to Marsyas 32 Persephone to Demeter 33 Kali in the Sackler Wing 34 Laïs to Aphrodite 35 Artemis to Aphrodite 36 Demeter to Persephone 37 Lord Krishna to the Summer Handyman 38 Gaia Regards Her Children 39 Prayer in Autumn 40 ฀iv Drone 45 Born in the USA 47 Listening to Public Radio 48 Laundry 50 The Snowfall 51 Two Poems 53 A Theme for Charles Ives 54 Dear God 55 Almanac 56 Ars Poetica: Three Poems 68 Zeno 70 Notes 73 Acknowledgments 75 The Book of SevenTy ...