Told
I’m Not Sure about Dying
Edward Hopper
11 Saving Face
14 Two Poems in Which He Thinks of Her
1 Village
3 I Said to God, “I’m Thinking of You”
4 The Wrong Angels Edvard Munch A Tense Shift Addresses the Imagination Goodbye to All That I Thought War of the Worlds Saint Second Amendment In This Photograph Baron von Richthofen Meltdown The Angel of Mars: Two Views
7 Anchors Aweigh Tag Religious Experience Limes Night Watch Lifeboat Dream If the Moon Kept Goats: A Veteran’s Tale
3 My Youth
5 The Nothing That Is Ghosts Author, Author Your Brother’s Face A Man in the Park Masefield in Purgatory Second Message Abide with Me
6 Is Time the Road or What Travels along It?
8 Falling
10 Biography
11 Take Me out to the Ball Game
12 In the House of the Afterlife
14 Voice
17 Step by Step
18 Wyoming
1.
THE AGNOSTIC PIROUETTES
Do you know, Daphne, that song of the old days,
At the foot of the sycamore or under the white laurels,
Under the olive trees, the myrtle, or the trembling willows,
That song of love that always begins again?
—ROBERT DUNCAN
A SHORT SONG
This is a song of our consciousness, that faltering
old man
