"Who fed this muse?" 3

Joy. He's himself today! He knows me! 9

"Grave, never offering back the face of my dear" 10

"Guys who were 35 last year are 70 this year" 11

The Navajo Rug 12

A Vigil 13

The Use of Being Fat 15

"For years it drove me crazy" 16

Performative (Toronto) 17

Performative (San Francisco) 18

"What I would be when I grew up" 19

"Not like the clownish, friendly way you talk" 20

Sh 21

"I can tune my mind today" 22

"All I know is I woke up thinking" 23

Snapsh 24

"Crushed. Dilapidated." 25

The 58 1/2 Minute Hour 26

How Not to Be There 27

"Mobility, speech, sight" 28

"A scar, just a scar" 29

"When I got so sick it never occurred to me" 30

"Little kid at the airport practicing" 31

"In dreams they're interchangeable" 32

Our 33

"It seems there are two kinds of marriage" 34

"One of us falls asleep on the other's shoulder" 35

Not 36

Nicht Mehr Leben 37

"I'm safe so long as the single feather of our wing" 38

"In dreams on which decades of marriage haven't" 39

II

Trace at 46 43

An Essay on the Picture Plane 72

Everything Always Distracts 74

Sexual Hum 76

Penn Central: New Haven Line 80

Poet 82

Sestina Lente 83

III

The Warm Decembers 89

Note on "The Warm Decembers" 153

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