Contents
EARLY
Trust3
On Listening to a Scholarly Lecture in Spring4
Clowns5
Gold6
FORMS
End Rhyme Poems
Babies9
A Tomboy Grows Older10
Ballads
The Ballad of Mr. Mc Gregor11
The Ballad of the Stafford St. Spruce13
Villanelles
Fine15
Sand Castles16
PLANTS, ANIMALS, and SEASONS
To a Loon at Sunrise19
Night Loon19
On Seeing a Bluebird20
The Snowmen21
Shoveling the Walk for the Elderly21
Robins in Winter22
First Robin22
Reprieved23
Lost Blooming23
Spring Delight24
Spring24
My Garden25
The Garden Porcupine26
Epitaph for a Garden26
Amtrak Naturalist27
Ducks in the Serpentine27
Immortality I28
Immortality II28
Bath with a Beetle29
The Tree30
Green30
The Pond31
POEMS for FAMILY
Embu District, Kenya 1961
Town and Boma35
The Mountain36
Down Murinduko Way37
The Plain39
Kangaru School39
With Mary in Central Park40
Squid Cove41
On Watching Therese Cry42
On Finding a Shark's Tooth in the Wash43
LOSS
Poems from New York
1. The Choice47
2. Good Luck48
3. Maine48
4. Calling Chris49
5. Two Medicine Poems50
6. Bright Spots51
7. Hello Out There51
8. Painting in the Garden52
9. Luckier than Lear52
Dark53
What Are We?54
Fine55
The Picture56
Careless Ways56
Memories57
Socks58
Cruising59
Do Not Go Gentle 160
Do Not Go Gentle 260
Eight-Five61
Cicada61
HAMLET POEMS
A Lawyer, 3265
A School Girl, 1666
A Bishop, 6367
A Widow, 5168
A Retired Business Man, 7169
A Minor Politician, 4770
MORE POEMS
For Adele Arden, Our Neighbor73
The Lake and the Light74
Mama75
Partire ¨ un Po Morire (To Leave Is to Die a Little)76
End of Summer76
Noah77
When the Fog Comes in from the Sea78
For Peggy79
Ireland79
On Taking Three Children to the Airport after Christmas80
The Turtle Rebuffed81
Eve's Granddaughter Consoles Her for the Loss of Eden82
It84
Corinthians I.13 Envy85
Notebooks86
Train Thoughts 188
Train Thoughts 288
Nobody Wants to Be a Pill89
The Bacchae, Harvard Stadium 198390
Restless Night90
Watercolor91
Venezia92
Armor93
The Cricket Grannies94
FOR FUN
A Fishing Trip: Invitation and Reply97
"You've Got to Break Eggs to Make an Omelet"98
Stories Retold98
Poetry Reading99