Table of Contents
Celestial Room
In The Bed 9
The House I Am In 12
Looking At The Fountain In The Sun 13
The Solitary Darkness 14
A Burning 17
Evening Song 18
Deep, Abiding 19
For Little Bodies Bodily Thrones: For Spirits Invisible 20
Viva Vox 21
How She Moves Her Hand 22
Everything Was Moving, And Not 23
As Though I Were Awakening From A Sleep 24
Anamnesis 25
My Fortieth Year 27
Offering The Agony 28
Mysterium Tremendum 29
What He Brings Me In The Morning 33
Under The Tall Trees 34
Human Documents 35
In A Museum 37
The View Of The World As She Sees It 39
The Air When She Turns Three 40
Celestial Room 42
Works And Days 43
Restive 44
Mirae Speculationes 45
Leaving The Rest Unseen 46
An Ancient Face 47
Creature Feeling 48
Museum We Enter Again 49
Night Watch 50
The Day With Both Of Them 53
Correspondence With The Heavens 54
Uncreated Light
In The Chamber Of The Voices 61
The Funeral In My Head 68
The Field 69
In The Book Of Love, For The Not Living 70
In The Heat, The Body 71
Blue Partridge 72
Uncreated Light 73
A Chorus 74
In My Mind, The Idea Of House 77
In The Open Field 80
It Is Night, In My Study 81
The Child's Dreams 83
I Will Perform The Exercise 84
The Fennel In The Garden Grows High 86
Temple Hymn 88
If I Kiss Your Forehead 89
Family Photographs 90
Though I Walk Through The Valley 94
Clear Instrument 95
Green Lion 96
In The Light (The Haze) Of The Field 98
A Requiem For The Self 99
Every Time I Am Gentle 100
A Picture Of The Universe 101
And I Would Hold You In My Arms 103
Night Bird 104
Architecture Of Light 105
With Friends In Provincetown 107
Looking Into The Natural Order 109
Cello Lessons 111
Could I Have Opened My Eyes Without You 112
When My Daughter Speaks Of The Heavenly Meadows 113
Labyrinth On My Table
Marguerite Speaks 119
The Voice 120
The Being Toward Which She Tends 121
Aperture 122
A Desperate Attempt At Beauty 123
Of The Work Of Love And Why She Has This Book Made 131
Her Professed Religion 132
More Free, And Very Free 133
Nothing Other Than To See 134
Like Wax From A Seal 135
Labyrinth On My Table 136
Ravishing Farnearness 137
When My Body Leaves My Soul 138
Her Last Name Is: Oblivion, Forgotten 140
Nor Do I Have Any Other Practice 141
Explicit 142
Inquiry 143
The Approval 144
She Is Where She Loves 145
Because She Has Given Him All She Has 146
For They Cannot Find Her In Their Works 147
Because No One Could Tell Me About Him 148
Into My House And Everything Surrounds 149
Three Beautiful Considerations 151
Here One Speaks 152
Reason And Fear And This Insatiable Will 154
In The High Mountain, Above The Winds 155
How Reason Is Surprised That This Soul Has Abandoned The Virtues 156
Deep, Large, Supreme, And Sure 157
Deo Gratias 158
Repose 159
The Soul Is The Precious Parchment 160
From The Ancient World 161
My First Born Daughter 162
An Addendum: The Voice (1977) 163
