Table of Contents for Apple Trees at Olema : New and Selected Poems

NEW POEMS

July Notebook: The Birds

(8)

Sleep like the down elevator's

In front of me six African men, each of them tall

They are built like exclamation points, woodpeckers

Are you there? It's summer. Are you smeared with the juice of cherries?

After Coleridge and for Milosz: Late July

For C.R.: What do you mean you have nothing?

Late afternoons in June the fog rides in

August Notebook: A Death

(7)

River Bicycle Peony

Sudden and Grateful Memory of Mississippi John Hurt

You can fall a long way in sunlight

Today his body is consigned to the flames

Variations on a Passage in Edward Abbey

(2)

The Bus to Baekdam Temple

(1)

Song of the Border Guard

(2)

September Notebook: Stories

(6)

Everyone comes from a long way off

Driving up 80 in the haze, they talked and talked

Alternatively: He found that it was no good trying to tell

Names for involuntary movements of the body

The receptionist at the hospital morgue told him

Setup without the punchline: Once there were two sisters called Knock Me and Sock Me

"Why?" he asked. "Because she was lonely

It is good to sit down to birthday cake

Stories about the distribution of wealth

How Eldie Got her Name

Punchline without the setup

He had known, as long as he'd known anything

Because she, not her sister, answered the door

A Ballad

She looked beautiful, and looked her age, too

Two jokes walk into a bar

In the other world the girls were named Eleanor and Filina

Some of David's Story

(5)

Snowy Egret

(2)

The Red Chinese Dragon and the Shadows on Her Body in the Moonlight

(7)

From FIELD GUIDE

On the coast near Sausalito

(2)

Fall

(1)

Maps

(4)

Adhesive: For Earlene

(1)

Bookbuying in the Tenderloin

(2)

Spring

(1)

Song

(1)

Palo Alto: The Marshes

(5)

Concerning the Afterlife, the Indians of Central California Had Only the Dimmest Notions

(2)

The Nineteenth Century as a Song

(2)

Measure

(1)

Applications of the Doctrine

(2)

House

(2)

In Weather

(8)

From PRAISE

Heroic Simile

(2)

Meditation at Lagunitas

(1)

Sunrise

(2)

The Yellow Bicycle

(1)

Against Botticelli

(2)

Like Three Fair Branches from One Root Deriv'd

(1)

Transparent Garments

(1)

The Image

(1)

The Feast

(1)

The Pure Ones

(1)

The Garden of Delight

(1)

Santa Lucia

(3)

To a Reader

(1)

The Origin of Cities

(1)

Winter Morning in Charlottesville

(1)

Old Dominion

(1)

Monticello

(1)

Emblems of a Prior Order

(1)

Weed

100

(1)

Child Naming Flowers

101

(2)

Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan

103

(1)

The Beginning of September

104

(5)

Not going to New York: A Letter

109

(3)

Songs to Survive the Summer

112

(19)

From HUMAN WISHES

Spring Drawing

131

(2)

Vintage

133

(2)

Spring Rain

135

(2)

Late Spring

137

(2)

Rusia en 1931

139

(2)

Spring Drawing 2

141

(2)

Calm

143

(1)

Museum

144

(1)

Novella

145

(2)

Churchyard

147

(1)

Conversion

148

(1)

Human Wishes

149

(1)

Tall Windows

150

(1)

The Harbor at Seattle

151

(2)

Paschal Lamb

153

(3)

Duck Blind

156

(1)

Quartet

157

(1)

A Story About the Body

158

(1)

In the Bahamas

159

(1)

January

160

(2)

The Apple Trees at Olema

162

(2)

Misery and Splendor

164

(1)

Santa Lucia II

165

(4)

Cuttings

169

(4)

Santa Barbara Road

173

(8)

Berkeley Eclogue

181

(6)

Privilege of Being

187

(2)

Natural Theology

189

(2)

Tahoe in August

191

(2)

Thin Air

193

(3)

Between the Wars

196

(2)

On Squaw Peak

198

(5)

From SUN UNDER WOOD

Happiness

203

(1)

Our Lady of the Snows

204

(1)

Dragonflies Mating

205

(5)

My Mother's Nipples

210

(9)

The Gardens of Warsaw

219

(2)

Layover

221

(2)

Notes on "Layover"

223

(2)

The Woods in New Jersey

225

(1)

Iowa City: Early April

226

(3)

A Note on "Iowa City: Early April"

229

(2)

Sonnet

231

(1)

Faint Music

232

(3)

Forty Something

235

(1)

Shame: An Aria

236

(3)

Regalia for a Black Hat Dancer

239

(10)

Jatun Sacha

249

(1)

Frida Kahlo: In the Saliva

250

(1)

English: An Ode

251

(7)

The Seventh Night

258

(2)

Interrupted Mediation

260

(5)

From TIME AND MATERIALS

Iowa, January

265

(1)

After Trakl

266

(1)

Envy of Other People's Poems

267

(1)

A Supple Wreath of Myrtle

268

(1)

Futures in Lilacs

269

(1)

Three Dawn Songs in Summer

270

(1)

The Distribution of Happiness

271

(1)

Etymology

272

(1)

The Problem of Describing Color

273

(1)

The Problem of Describing Trees

274

(1)

Winged and Acid Dark

275

(1)

A Swarm of Dawns, a Flock of Restless Noons

276

(2)

Breach and Orison

278

(4)

The World as Will and Representation

282

(2)

After the Winds

284

(2)

For Czeslaw Milosz in Krakow

286

(2)

Time and Materials

288

(3)

Art and Life

291

(4)

Domestic Interiors

295

(2)

Twin Dolphins

297

(3)

Then Time

300

(2)

That Music

302

(1)

Czeslaw Milosz: In Memoriam

303

(3)

Horace: Three Imitations

306

(4)

State of the Planet

310

(8)

Poem with a Cucumber in It

318

(2)

Drift and Vapor (Surf Faintly)

320

(2)

"...white of forgetfulness, white of safety"

322

(2)

I Am Your Waiter Tonight and My Name is Dmitri

324

(3)

A Poem

327

(2)

Bush's War

329

(4)

Pears

333

(2)

The Dry Mountain Air

335

(2)

First Things at the Last Minute

337

(1)

Poet's Work

338

(1)

Mouth Slightly Open

339

(1)

Old Movie with the Sound Turned Off

340

(2)

Ezra Pound's Proposition

342

(1)

On Visiting the DMZ at Panmunjon: A Haibun

343

(1)

Consciousness

344

(3)

Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow

347

(1)

September, Inverness

348

(1)

Notes and Acknowledgments

349