Alive together: new and selected poems

Curriculum Vitae

Place and Time

Immortality

Losing My Sight

An Unanswered Question

Eyes and Ears

Paper-White Narcissus

Midwinter Notes

Pillar of Salt

Statues

The Laughter of Women

Pigeons

Imaginary Paintings

Things

Tears

Mirrors

An Afterlife

Heartland

American Literature

Silence and Dancing

The Late-Born Daughters

Happy and Unhappy Families I

Happy and Unhappy Families II

Reader

Animals Are Entering Our Lives

Why I Need the Birds

A Short History of the Rose

In November

Night Voyage: A Dream

Captivity

The Blind Leading the Blind

In the Thriving Season

The Power of Music to Disturb

On Finding a Bird's Bones in the Woods

Cicadas

The Mermaid

Moon Fishing

A Grackle Observed

The Lonesome Dream

The Queen of Sheba Says Farewell

Figure for a Landscape

"O Brave New World, That Hath Such People in It"

In Memory of Anton Webern, Dead September 15, 1945

Whoever You Are: A Letter

Small Poem About the Hounds and the Hares

Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny

Highway Poems

The Fall of the Muse

The Biographer

January Afternoon, with Billie Holiday

Life of a Queen

Alive Together

My Grandmother's Gold Pin

On Reading and Anthology of Postwar German Poetry

What the Dog Perhaps Hears

Palindrome

Snow

The Private Life

The Late News

A Nude by Edward Hopper

In Praise of Surfaces

Naming the Animals

Love like Salt

The Concert

A Farewell, a Welcome

Hope

Letter from the End of the World

For a Thirteenth Birthday

Another Version

Drawings by Children

Fiction

Sometimes, When the Light

Beginning with 1914

Talking to Helen

Daughter

Merce Cunningham and the Birds

Not Only the Eskimos

Found in the Cabbage Patch

One More Hymn to the Sun

The Cook

Picking Raspberries

The Need to Hold Still

Voices from the Forest

The Triumph of Life: Mary Shelley

The Story

The Artist's Model, ca. 1912

The End of Science Fiction

What Will You Do

Why We Tell Stories

Necessities

Voyager

Bread and Apples

The Garden

Blood Oranges

Your Tired, Your Poor

Identical Twins

Southpaw

After Whistler

The Questioning

Widow

The Exhibit

Letter to California

Metaphor

Storm

Accommodations

For the Strangers

Up North

Scenic Route

Reasons for Numbers

The Possessive Case

Stalking the Poem

Monet Refuses the Operation

What Is Left to Say

There Are Mornings

Fugitive

A Day like Any Other

Into Space

Missing the Dead

When I Am Asked

Joy

Cavalleria Rusticana

Magnolia

Visiting My Native Country with My American-Born Husband

Late Hours

Poem for My Birthday

Bedtime Story

Virtuosi

Three Poems About the Voiceless

Epilepsy, Petit Mal

Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids

Aphasia

Mary

After Your Death

All Night

The Deaf Dancing to Rock

Film Script

Triage

Muse

Slides

Brendel Playing Schubert

Romantics

Nocturne.