To add our own suffering
23 To hold a pane of glass
24 Nesting dolls
25 Of course, a book about living
26 When you are sad
27 To be alive
28 Calm down, calm down
29 So obvious that the voice can cease
30 Facing away from the light
31 Weeping, weeping, weeping
32 The human heart
33 To loll in a sensual torpor
34 I saw my own body
35 How to exhaust the inexhaustible?
36 Time to shut up
37 We’d only just met
38 Snow on the tree branch
39 Tired of the body?
40 You might think
Part Three
1 All the different books you read
2 You can read the world
3 How badly the world needs words
4 How the crocus pops up
5 The dandelion, too
6 Oh, I know: the beloved
7 They said to me: here
8 Let’s remake the world with words
9 In the spring swamp
10 Weighed down with the weight
11 Humid morning
12 The sun: a hot hand
13 No one is grateful
14 How could that Chinese poet
15 July sun on the green leaves
16 Hummingbird’s furious
17 Whitman’s list of the things he could see
18 Today only a single poem
19 Waking now, and we didn’t even know
20 No one I ever believed said
21 The beloved often
22 Spasm and sadness
23 To Guillaume Apollinaire, the beloved
24 Saying the word
25 Not the first lessons of grief
26 We exist in the mortal world only
27 Skitterbugs on the stream’s surface
28 How is it I’m tired
29 The grapes taste good
30 Some say you’re lucky
31 When you’re afraid
32 How can lines
33 The poet approaches the lectern
Part Four
1 Bittersweet, bittersweet
2 Ripeness of summer
3 Wildness of the world
4 There’s the daisy
5 Yes, our human time is finite
6 Last night, a huge storm
7 All that sorrow
8 When we lost the beloved
9 Rain last night
10 Naked before the beloved
11 No postmortems, please
12 Oh, to be deeply naked
13 I thought I was hunting
14 Long night on the road
15 If we could have the world
16 Autumn with its too-muchness
17 Is the beloved greedy
18 Eyes blurred with tears
19 My mother’s joy
20 What suffering!
21 What did someone cynically
22 A song of resurrection played
23 The world looks
24 When the world
25 Not deepest grief
26 If deepest grief is hell
27 And it happens, of course
28 This room crowded
29 Clearing out the room
30 I put the beloved
31 Not the loss alone
32 Memories: embers
33 Scar they stare at
Part Five
1 Now the leaves are falling fiercely
2 Not to make loss beautiful
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