The Buddhist painter prepares to paint -- Reflexive -- November : Indian summer -- Purana, meaning once upon a time -- Naming for love -- Adolf Eichmann -- Burning dawn -- Freedom and discipline -- Selected haiku [from The Clay Hill anthology] -- Concerning necessity -- The ravine -- Once more -- The cows at night -- Emergency haying -- The birds of Vietnam -- Abandoned ranch, Big Bend -- The loon on Forrester's Pond -- August first -- Essay -- The joy and agony of improvisation -- Essay on stone -- John Dryden -- Johnny Spain's white heifer -- Marshall Washer -- The poet -- On being asked to write a poem against the war in Vietnam -- Regarding chainsaws -- Song of the two crows -- The oldest killed lake in North America -- Sometimes when lovers lie quietly together, unexpectedly one of them will feel the other's pulse -- The impossible indispensability of the ars poetica -- Of distress being humiliated by the classical Chinese poets -- Survival as Tao, beginning at 5:00 A.M. -- "Sure," said Benny Goodman, -- Pa McCabe -- Pray you young woman -- Assignment -- Birthday cake -- Testament -- Ecstasy -- Prepare -- Because I am -- The sound -- Dearest M-- -- Saturday morning in mundane Munnsville -- Saturday was the first day of the new millennium -- Elegance -- Letter to Denise -- The new quarry -- Springtime, 1998 -- Selected haiku -- Fanfare for the common man, no. 2 -- Adoration is not irrelevant -- Two poets -- Navel -- On being marginalized -- Complaint and petition -- The little girl who learned the saving way -- Two white stones -- February morning -- Small fundamental essay -- A few dilapidated arias.
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