Table of Contents:
“…Three valentines to the wide world -- Two poems, with birds -- The gentle snorer -- From Yellow Lake: an interval -- Dwarf in the woods -- Insight -- 3 a.m. in a war year -- Woman waiting -- Nap -- Paratrooper -- To my godson, on his christening -- New land -- Death by aesthetics -- A relative and an absolute -- A kind of music -- Toward a definition of marriage -- Elementary attitudes -- A serious case -- Recovery -- An essay on criticism -- Pot-au-feu -- Gray's apocrypha -- Notes from a suburban heart -- Quebec suite -- Earth tremors felt in Missouri -- A garland for Christopher Smart -- A sentimental delusion -- Placet experiri -- An annual and perennial problem -- The gardener to his god -- Sestina for warm seasons -- Open letter, personal -- A time of bees -- Outlandish agon -- A Christmas card, after the assassinations -- Causes -- The wish to be believed -- First flight -- Leda -- The creation -- The piet?…”