Messenger: new and selected poems, 1976-2006

The hen

Harvest

Dislogue: poetics

Stork

Damage

The letter

The visit

Snakeskin

Tropics

Blue ridge

A fugue

The happiness poems

Talking the fire out

For my father

Year's end

Liebesgedicht

Jug brook

Sweet everlasting

The last class

Visiting the graves

The photograph

The field trip

The trust

The farmer

Bright leaf

Amaryllis

Nightshade

The waterfall

Dancing with poets

Feast day

Short story

Stone pond

The lotus flowers

The innocents

At the piano

Variations: at the piano

After Keats

Woman who weeps

Two trees

Variations: two trees

Soft cloud passing

Effort at speech

Song and story

From Kyrie

Largesse

Winter field

Long marriage

Lesson

Himalaya

High winds flare up and the old house shudders

The garden, spring, the hawk

The art of distance

Horace: Ode I.xxxiv

Autumn in the yard we planted

Practice

The feeder

Deathbed

The hive

Harvesting the cows

Rubato

Redbud

The tattered dress

Prayer

Adagio

Messenger.