Table of Contents

Contents The Condition I How It Is Back from the Fields Dorothy Old Woman’s Song At the Playground, Singing for Psychiatric Outpatients The Brother Drinking Cold Water Gray Poem The Marsh, New Year’s Day The Coat II Living by Water The Heavy Angel To Tlaloc of the Rain Home from Duck Marsh Hymn to the Sacred Birds Collecting the Animals Learning to Speak Perhaps It’s as You Say The Gift III It Was Autumn Routes The Burden of Decision Going We Meet in the Lives of Animals The Fish/Lago Chapala Thus He Left Counting How to Handle It Desire Late Hour IV In Torino The Dinner Perosa Canavese Sorting the Tools Distance Night Letters Failure Night This World Awakes to Silence V Speaking of Accidents On Modern Travel From Station to Station Three Poems Never Written A Short Novel Poem for Two Voices VI First Star In the Last Days Nocturnal Self-Portrait I Dreamt A Story A Portrait Elegiac Fragments Poem Beginning with a Line from Leonardo Sinisgalli Lullaby From the Meadow The Heart Notes Acknowledgments