Below Cold Mountain [poems]
(Book)

Provenance -- Suite for the common -- The magician -- Night in day -- Homage to Rolf Jacobsen -- Homage to the black walnut ... -- Mercy, mercy -- That life is a circle of Heraclitean fire -- The first law of thermodynamics -- Chaos theory: equation -- The orchard -- All through the night the mockingbird sang -- Every summer the riots -- Lost -- Love in the classical world -- Biophysics -- Hear that phone ringing? --

What she told me in Orland, California -- The life of a dog -- Go fetch it! -- Matar la noche -- The nightingales of Andalucía -- And raised my hand in return -- Hacedor -- He asked, and we began the train into the heart -- My father died -- The others, O Lord, for my time has not yet come -- Was not prepared for the death of my father --

In the maze garden of the Generalife -- He told me to come back and see -- Love's more difficult translation -- The song of divorce -- In this flesh -- Where language fails -- In Puerto Vallarta once -- Reading Cavafy alone in bed -- Idle -- Come and get it -- In the body of the dragon -- And for this also I am ashamed -- After the opera -- From time to time turning my head to see -- Die Schwermut --

The words of Chilam Balam -- Babbette -- Missing -- Earth angel-- Can you hear it? -- The years like crows coming home to roost -- Walking on the Shining Path -- In sepia -- This waiting -- Love like a catch of fire -- These nights, passing through -- Dissolving -- No lexicon -- Ezra under the constellation of the dragon -- Comice -- Rock me on the waters -- Our blood is red coral ... -- Simple gifts -- And the white goat tethered to a fig tree --

Homage to life -- Listening to Leon -- Islands -- Autumn -- Alam Al-Mithral -- Of Sappho/[shards]/Sabi -- Homage to the presence of mystery among us -- Bible -- Postcards to Cold Mountain -- Homage to night -- Questions and answers -- Homage to the word-hoard -- Listening to Issa -- Homage: Doo Wop -- Directions -- Oh yes -- Homage: Summer/winter, Shay Creek -- Alchemy: final music -- Steps to the river --

Memories at the movies

Notes toward a 19th century painting

Cézanne and the noumenal world

Portrait of the artist as a young boy

Waiting for the barbarians

Shape-shifter

Sky diving

In the dragon's mouth

Venom

How green the leaves in sunlight are

Death in the Tehachapi

Knots

Grief

Feral

Crossing the island

Seizure

Lines

Auvergne

Crossing over, and back

By the rivers of Babylon.