Table of Contents
I Beginning 3
Inside our house is another house 4
I wanted to lie down with you where the rooftops 5
No One Knows Her 6
Suburb 7
To Take 9
She preferred to read the knives 10
From the Start 11
I say to the stars get inside me 12
I have tried hard to have appropriate feelings 13
II Diary from the Red House 17
Why Is Poetry Written in Lines 28
From the Naturalist's Notebook: Division 29
Bats 30
Self-Portrait as Math 32
III Her Unpublished Notebooks 35
From the Naturalist's Notebook: Propagation 38
Every Day Is a New Day 39
The Fuchsia, the Orange, and the Dahlias 40
Maria 41
Hedges 42
Prayer 43
I dreamt I was your cat and then the night 44
Eat or Be Eaten 45
Horizon means a line where the body 46
To Define: Fetch 47
It's Me 48
For the Newly Cinematic 49
Cleaning House While Listening to a Tape of Anne Sexton 50
Down at the Heels in the Ditch 51
I am climbing into bed with a stiff drink 52
IV [O my mechanical heart] 55
[My mouth is the freshest vegetable] 56
[Which crow would you give up] 57
[To say the sky was mine] 58
[If the dirt didn't love the trees] 59
Eve 60
Prayer 61
Owl among the Ruins 62
Sonnet 63
Landscape without Figures 64
Sight Comes to Owls Slowly 65
Still Life, with Brick 66
Once 67
Change the house I used to live in, its doors and windows 68
Telescope versus Microscope 69
(Surrender) 70
Notes 71
Acknowledgments 73
