Time and Materials

Time and materials : poems, 1997-2005

Iowa, January -- After Trakl -- Envy of other people's poems -- A supple wreath of myrtle -- Futures in lilacs -- Three dawn songs in summer -- The distribution of happiness -- Etymology -- The problem of describing color -- The problem of describing trees -- Winged and acid dark -- A swarm of dawns, a flock of restless noons -- Breach and Orison -- The world as will and representation -- After the winds -- For Czesław Miłosz in Kraków -- Time and materials -- Art and life -- Domestic interiors -- Twin dolphins -- Then time -- That music -- Czesław Miłosz : In memoriam -- Horace : Three imitations -- Tomas Tranströmer : Song -- State of the planet -- Poem with a cucumber in it -- Drift and vapor (surf faintly) -- " ... white of forgetfulness, white of safety" -- After Goethe -- I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri -- A poem -- Bush's war -- Pears -- The dry mountain air -- First things at the last minute -- Poet's work -- Mouth slightly open -- Old movie with the sound turned off -- Ezra Pound's proposition -- On visiting the Dmz at Panmunjom : A Haibun -- Consciousness -- Exit, pursued by a Sierra meadow -- September, Inverness -- Notes.

The apple trees at Olema : new and selected poems

July notebook: The birds -- August notebook: A Death -- Variations on a passage in Edward abbey -- The bus to Baekdam Temple -- Song of the border guard -- September notebook: Stories -- Some of David's story -- Snowy egret -- The red chinese dragon and the shadows on her body in the moonlight -- from Field Guide -- from Praise -- from Human Wishes -- from Sun Under Wood -- from Time And Materials.

American hybrid : a Norton anthology of new poetry

from The Indian never had a horse ; from In/somnia ; from To be in a time of war / Inside a world the world fits into ; You think it's a secret, but it never was one ; Exceptions and melancholies ; Soft and pretty ; Sampling ; Sometimes an image ; The unveiling ; Vertigo / Special theory of relativity ; Generation ; The fit ; Police business ; Turn of events ; What we mean ; Scumble ; Yonder ; Translation / Well-lit places ; What to do with milk ; The taken ; Obsidian House ; Others shied away ; Haibun ; The garden of false civility ; Of linnets and dull time / February elegy ; P equals pie ; Mystery at manor ; Close ; Alice in Wonderland ; Man and woman / Now begins our immaculate summer ; The birds know ; In the days of famous want ; This is what's been done to flesh ; from Your time has come / Insatiability ; Clouds of willing seen in the bird day ; The white letter ; The green letter ; Banana peaks get snowfall / Conservation with Evan Hesse ; Sail ; Justnowland ; Vanish nearby ; Shoots and pulps ; Pirate keep / Chinese space ; from Four year old girl ; Parallel lines / A sideways suicide ; Ruby for grief ; My sister is not a dollar ; The eyeglasses ; We have to talk about another book ; The rearranger / Before the birds awaken ; It's what I'm afraid of ; My whispered song ; I'm sorry I brought it up ; There is no way to know ; The words I did not say ; There should've been rabbits ; She falls in love ; The note I taped up ; You have put the cup ; In the story ; Through a panel of controls ; When you step from the entry hall ; I have no say / Floating by ; Units for tomorrow ; Dear Robert ; Sarabande ; My operatives ; Conditions maritimes / The sky drank in ; Careful ; Little more red sun on the human ; from The plot genie / Works of Thos. Swan ; On my brother W[illiam] falling from his horse ; The acts / from Conference ; from Cheerleader's guide to the world : council book ; from Paramour / The apocrypha of Jacques Derrida ; At sunset ; After sky X ; Of politics, & art ; Blue ; The city of snow ; Two stanzas for Timothy Deshaies / Ellipses ; The obscure room & my inexplicable weeping ; Elegy for the poetry of her personal experiences ; In English in a poem ; Then, suddenly ; The book's speech / Cue or starting point ; The disappeared ; Hotel classic / Warmth sculpture ; The permeable past tense of feel / Leap year ; Nature averts her eyes ; Earthquake ; Apollinaire's cane ; The mastermind asks some questions ; Stop whimpering and speak / Time and the hour ; Exhaustible appearance ; Coda ; from The hugeness of that which is missing ; Poem ; Road and tree ; Collodion ; Ivy brick wall ; Argosy for rock and grass ; Moon and Page Ghazal / from Giscome road ; from Prairie style / Tous les Matins du Monde ; In defense of nothing ; Plain song ; Beginning with a phrase from Simone Weil ; Human memory is organic ; That's life

Etymologically work work / Dawn day one ; Little exercise ; Dusk shore prayer ; Ebbtide / Dissonance royal traveller ; A Medieval hollow from Stripped tales ; The imagined room ; A short narrative ; Alteration / Time and materials ; White of forgetfulness, white of safety ; Rusia en 1931 ; The yellow bicycle ; The garden of delight / from The beginner ; from The composition of the cell ; from The book of a thousand eyes / Black series ; Sediments of Santa Monica ; Styrofoam cup ; Left eye ; String theory sutra ; An oddness / The presence ; Childhood and its double ; from Edge and fold ; Haikuisation of Shakespeare's sonnet 56 / 9/11 ; 2002 ; The splinter ; The descent ; Let it snow ; Is knowing / from Bed hangings II ; from Kidnapped / The removes ; Eclipse calling ; Home unknown stone ; Breath, bring nothing to term ; The evening of chances / Freely adapted ; Representation without taxation ; Critical essay ; Via negativa ; The Sybil's afterlife ; Noumenon / Exordium ; from Penury / After Mahler ; Interleavings Hum ; Impossible blue / Chimney song ; Event ; The wilds / Song of the Andoumboulou : 64 ; Double staccato ; Blue Anuncia's bird lute / Green flame ; Antennae ; Choices ; Occur ; Creek ; Sfumato ; Twist ; Thwart ; Dangerous Archipelagos ; Green card, blue shoes ; Dear elegy ; Phoenix elegy / from Reef : shadow of green ; Fauve harmonics ; Letter for K & poems for someone else / from A palace of pearls / from Nude memoir ; Laura de Sade ; Spicer's city / Wreath of a similar year ; Difficult of access ; The critique ; from Enlightenment evidence ; The state ; The promise ; In one body and one soul ; Awake ; The Milky way ; The burning peony / from Muse & drudge ; The lunar Lutheran ; Sleeping with the dictionary ; Why you and I ; Zombie hat / Refuge ; Plans ; from A noun's meant / Poem ; After Tsang Chih ; Poem ; from The descent of Alette ; I must have called and so he comes ; Lady Poverty / And sighs again (autobiography) ; Stone ; Una noche ; Tongue asleep ; The theory of the flower / California poppy ; Crematorium at Sierra View Cemetery ; Clutch and pumps ; My lot to spin the purple ; Listen mother, he punched the air ; Robe and pajamas, steadfast ; Darling can you kill me / Birds fly through us ; Mercy ; All Saints / from Don't let me be lonely / from Human/nature ; from Present tense ; from Where late the sweet birds sang / My trip ; My Mojave ; Picnic ; Zion ; Conquest ; Landscape with Tityrus in Vermont / from Hovenweep ; The little matchgirl ; The snow window / from Vertigo ; In a landscape of having to repeat ; You couldn't read a book about it ; In the house / Naked ladies ; Where letters go ; Penciled ; Concerning essential existence ; Impresario ; Go verbatim ; The world as I left it ; Minor ninth chord

Direction of fall ; A parking lot just outside the ruins of Babylon ; The tendency of dropped objects to fall ; Turandot ; You also, nightingale / Thus, speak the chromograph ; Essay : at night the autoportrait ; from The California poem ; World is weird / from The good house ; Ted's head ; The strength / Le Dejeuner ; Gallery ; Bowl / We arrived and everything was interconnected ; We arrived ; New world sonnet ; December 8, 2002 / The forest ; Awaken ; Variations on The dream of the road / Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins ; Pastorelle 9 ; Pastorelle 10 ; Parmenides/fragments 3 and 15A ; Pastorelle 12 ; Why trees weep / The family ; The family II ; Komodo ; Mother's first airplane / from Iovis 3 : Oculist wit : book of light ; Without stitching closed the eye of the falcon / First draw of the sea ; Singular / Evening sun ; Song ; Meditation on understanding ; Song ; Steps in integration / from Art & language writes an epitaph ; Look, look! ; For four violins ; False Isle ; The glove ; Textile 5 / Beavis' day off ; White exiles ; Loss Lieder ; Each's cot an altar then ; Toward Autumn / Double sonnet ; Attitude of rags ; Independence Day ; Those generals' eyes ; Faux self-portrait of you ; It wasn't exactly like being left standing at the altar ; Eye cages / The tree of personal effort ; Three apples ; Arthur in Egypt ; Constable's day off ; A fisher king ; The similitude of this great flower ; On the resemblance of some flowers to insects ; Verses omitted by mistake ; Oil and water ; Ancient subterranean fires ; Nocturne ; The oldest garden in the world ; Bohemian rhapsody / Animism ; Like peaches ; Why leave you so soon gone ; Bienvenu en Louisiane / Body and soul II ; The secret of poetry ; '54 Chevy ; Singing lesson ; Waking up after the storm ; Hawksbane ; from Littlefoot / The late tale ; Unpromising poem ; Egyptian sonnets (7) ; Egyptian sonnets (11) ; Robert Desnos writes / With hidden noise ; Yawn ; Bathed in dust and ashes ; Speck ; Homage to Richard Tuttle ; Man in red