xv, 300 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 25 cm

Stargazing -- Small white house -- Blow, west wind -- Composition in gold and red-gold -- Little boy and lost shoe -- Patriotic tour and postulate of joy -- Dragon-tree -- Vision under the October Mountin: A love poem -- Chain saw at dawn in Vermont in time of drouth -- Ways of day -- What happened -- The mad druggist -- Answer yes or no -- The interim -- What were you thinking, dear Mother? -- Insomnia -- His smile -- The wart -- The spider -- One drunk allegory -- Multiplication table -- Wind -- Does the wild rose? -- Shoes in rain jungle -- Fall comes in back-country Vermont -- Place and time -- The event -- A Confederate veteran tries to explain the event -- The place where the boy pointed -- And all that came thereafter -- Elijah on Mount Carmel -- Saul at Gilboa

(Cont.) Into broad daylight -- Love: Two vignettes -- Something is going to happen -- Dream of a dream the small boy had -- Two poems about suddenly and a rose -- Not to be trusted -- Finisterre -- Clearly about you -- The letter about money, love, or other comfort, if any -- Man in the street -- Switzerland -- A real question calling for solution -- Arrogant law -- Apology for Domitian -- Tiberius on Capri -- After night flight son reaches bedside of already unconscious father, whose right hand lifts in a spasmodic gesture, as though trying to make contact: 1955 -- A dead language: Circa 1885 -- Fox fire: 1956 -- In the turpitude of time: N.D. -- A vision: Circa 1880 -- Ornithology in a world of flux -- Holly and hickory -- The well house -- In moonlight, somewhere, they are singing -- In Italian they call the bird Civetta -- Debate: Question, quarry, dream

(Cont.) I can't even remember the name -- He was formidable -- Bear Track Plantation: Shortly after Shiloh -- Harvard '61: Battle fatigue -- Autumnal equinox on Mediterranean Beach -- Knockety-knockety-knock -- News of unexpected demise of Little Boy Blue -- Mother makes the biscuits -- Nightmare of mouse -- Colloquy with cockroach -- Cricket, on kitchen floor, enters history -- Grasshopper tries to break solipsism -- Sirocco -- Gull's cry -- The child next door -- The flower -- Colder fire -- What was the promise that smiled from the maples at evening? -- Court-martial -- Gold glade -- Dark woods -- Country burying (1919) -- School lesson based on word of tragic death of entire Gillum family -- Summer storm (circa 1916) and God's grace -- Founding fathers, nineteenth-century style, southeast USA -- Foreign shore, old woman, slaughter of octopus -- Dark night of the soul -- Infant boy at midcentury -- Lullaby: Smile in sleep -- Man in moonlight

(Cont.) Mad young aristocrat on beach -- Dragon country: To Jacob Boehme -- Ballad of a sweet dream of peace -- Boy's will, joyful labor without pay, and harvest home (1918) -- Lullaby: A motion like sleep -- The ballad of Billie Potts -- Terror -- Pursuit -- Original sin: A short story -- Crime -- Letter from a coward to a hero -- History -- End of season -- Ransom -- To a friend parting -- Eidolon -- Revelation -- Butterflies over the map -- The world comes galloping: A true story -- Small soldier with drum in large landscape -- The mango on the mango tree -- Monologue at midnight -- Bearded oaks -- Picnic remembered -- Love's parable -- Late subterfuge -- Man coming of age -- The garden -- The return: An elegy -- Rebuke of the rocks -- At the hour of the breaking of the rocks -- History among the rocks -- The return -- Pondy woods -- Letter of a mother -- To a face in a crowd

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