Starting from Sleep: New Poems -- Necessity's Children -- On the Interpretation of Dreams -- Dialogue of Stone and Stream -- To the Blackboard -- The Instrument -- The Wave -- Even as We Sleep -- Death Will Do Nothing -- Against a Certain Kind of Ardency -- Lot's Wife Looks Back -- Just a Smack at Larkin -- Past Closing Time: Eight Epigrams -- Petronius on Values -- Seven Poems from the Latin of John Owen -- Still Life with Pears -- The Philosopher's Progress -- Four Poems -- Death and the Four-Year-Old -- How My Queer Uncle Came to Die at Last -- From What the Darkness Proposes -- For a Child of Seven, Taken by the Jesuits -- Breaking Old Ground -- Victoria's Secret -- Tonight's Jeopardy -- Souvenirs of the Late War -- A Night at the Opera -- Getting the Miracle Wrong -- Flying Heads -- Reflections after a Dry Spell -- Modernism: The Short Course -- At Home with Psyche and Eros -- Vain Speculations -- To a Snapping Turtle, Lately Hatched -- Stanzas after Endgame -- The Philosopher's Balloon -- Sequence in California -- On Yielding to Whim -- Metaphor of Grass in California -- The Two of Them -- A Walk in the Hills above the Artists' House -- Neither Here nor There -- Letter from Here for Now -- Then, as It Happened -- from Steal the Bacon -- Complaint of the Night Watchman -- Steal the Bacon -- After the Rape of the Sabine Women -- Design -- A Burial at Shanidar -- Domestic Interior -- Speech against Stone -- A Happy Ending for the Lost Children -- E.S.L. -- Easter Sunday, 1985 -- July 1914.
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