Table of Contents
1979-1997
Why I'm in Favor of a Nuclear Freeze 3
Dust Light, Leaves 5
Halky's Comet from the West Coast, March 22,1986 6
Evening in Santorim 7
Star Journal 9
Prima Facie 13
Midlife 15
Father, 1952 18
There & Then 19
The Presocratic, Surfing, Breathing Cosmology Blues… 21
Camino Cielo 24
Sycamore Canyon Nocturne 26
1998-2006
Sleep Walk 31
Opera 33
Vacuum Genesis 35
Astronomy Lesson: At Café Menorca 37
20 Years of Grant Applications & State College Jobs 38
Early Cosmology 40
March 21st & Spring Begins on Benito Juarez's Birthday in Mexico 42
Photograph of Myself-Monastery of Monte Toro Menorca elv. 1,162 ft. 44
Watchful-Es Castell, Menorca 46
Metaphysical Trees 49
To Ernesto Trejo in the Other World 54
Old News: Poem on a Birthday 56
Poem after Lu Yu 59
Philosophical Poem on the Usual Subjects 60
Memory 63
Wooden Boats 64
Loyalty 66
The Uncertainty Principle 68
Photograph of John Berryman on the Back of Love & Fame 71
Travel 73
2007-2014
Poverty 77
We Need Philosophers for This? 79
I Too Am Not a Keeper of Sheep: Variation on a Theme by Pessoa 81
Ode to Clouds 84
In Memory of the Winos at the Morecon Bay Fig Tree, Santa Barbara, CA 86
What Einstein Means to Me 88
Scattering My Mother's Ashes: Santa Barabara, CA 90
Theory of Life on Other Worlds: Contemplating Retirement & Social Security Reform at Shore Line Park 91
Looking West from Montecito, Late Afternoon 93
Hemingway y yo 94
Lost Light 97
Drinking Champagne 99
Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Postcard 100
White Shirt 103
The Shape of Things 106
Heart Failure 109
Antiques Road Show 111
Poem on a Birthday 112
Metaphysical Poem Ending with That Line from Dirty Harry 114
Before Long 116
Late Iberian Manichaeism & the Crisis of Faith 120
Apnea 123
Creedence Clear Water Metaphysical Reflection 125
Slow Learner: In the Garden 128
Acknowledgments 131
