Table of Contents
1.
Murmur............................................................................................................... 1
Vocabulary Test.................................................................................................. 3
Things Not Asked............................................................................................... 4
The Spectacles.................................................................................................... 5
No Two Countries............................................................................................... 6
Half-Finished Bridge............................................................................................ 8
Until First Snow................................................................................................... 9
Binoculars......................................................................................................... 10
From the Forest Comes the Call........................................................................ 12
Chemotherapy................................................................................................... 13
State of the Union.............................................................................................. 14
Empty Casings................................................................................................... 15
Private Tour...................................................................................................... 17
2.
In Spring, Mathematics Are Yellow.................................................................... 20
Mathematician’s Play......................................................................................... 21
Logic................................................................................................................. 22
The Big Questions............................................................................................. 23
Chamomile........................................................................................................ 24
Grand Design.................................................................................................... 25
Plywood Palace................................................................................................. 26
Richter 7.8........................................................................................................ 28
Serendipity in the Cosmos.................................................................................. 29
Fish Story.......................................................................................................... 31
The Breakers..................................................................................................... 32
3.
Message............................................................................................................ 34
India Ink............................................................................................................ 36
In Confidence.................................................................................................... 37
After Wine........................................................................................................ 38
Folding.............................................................................................................. 39
Dislocation........................................................................................................ 40
Boys................................................................................................................. 41
One Would Hope.............................................................................................. 42
The Ivy and the Brick........................................................................................ 43
The Clay and the Fire........................................................................................ 44
Loss of Purchase............................................................................................... 45
Every Branch..................................................................................................... 46
Running Free..................................................................................................... 47
Vase of Tall White Stalks................................................................................... 49
Something to Celebrate...................................................................................... 50
4.
On the Art of Patience....................................................................................... 52
A Belated Calculus............................................................................................ 55
Slaying Philistines............................................................................................... 56
Fish at the Dance............................................................................................... 57
Rehearsal.......................................................................................................... 58
Aluminum Rush.................................................................................................. 60
The Photographs............................................................................................... 61
5.
The Way We Are.............................................................................................. 64
Smoked Tuna and Kalamata Olive Pâté............................................................. 66
Western Culture................................................................................................ 68
Horrifying of Highness........................................................................................ 69
Dirty Laundry.................................................................................................... 71
Gradients........................................................................................................... 72
Variations on a Theme by Yeats......................................................................... 73
Into Her World.................................................................................................. 75
Frozen Over...................................................................................................... 76
Something Missing............................................................................................. 77
Hey John........................................................................................................... 78
I Wished........................................................................................................... 79
Bipolar Fields.................................................................................................... 81
Not Yet............................................................................................................. 82
