• Table of Contents

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  • Copyright 2
  • Previous Publications 2
  • Acknowledgments 3
  • Dedication 4
  • Epigraph 5
  • Question to an Alter Ego 6
  • Birthday 7
  • Angels of the Projective Mind 8
  • Looking at an Old Photograph of my Grandmother 9
  • Artemis 10
  • At Palomar Observatory11
  • On the Scientific Train 12
  • Of Tigers and Other Turns 13
  • On the World Food Conference 14
  • Against All -Ists and -Isms15
  • On the Immortal Gods' Voices 16
  • Far-Darter, Silver-Bowed 17
  • The Owl to an Orestes 18
  • Trafficking in Words 19
  • You Were Right, Heraclitus 20
  • Where Men and Angels Parted 21
  • To Apollo 22
  • To Athena 23
  • The Dragon 24
  • Why Statius Would Have Postponed Paradise 25
  • The Times Ordain 26
  • While Brother Rabbit Walks his Dog 27
  • Persephone Ponders Brother Rabbit 28
  • Persephone on Women's Lib 29
  • Answer to Brother Rabbit's Covert Question 30
  • To Affirm this Bond 31
  • To Make a Star 32
  • Just Out of Touch 33
  • If We Both Consented 34
  • Persephone, Emerging from the Underworld 35
  • To a Sort of Tin Drummer 36
  • Downhill from Eden 37
  • Only a Road Branching 38
  • To Fight a Shadow War 39
  • Armored in Glass 40
  • Two Can Travel for the Price of One 41
  • A Brief Note on Consanguinity 42
  • Winter Rain 43
  • To a Hollywood Projector 44
  • For Him Who Is No Gorgon-Slayer 45
  • Intermission: The 5 a.m. Porter 46
  • To a Would-Be Cardboard Man 47
  • On the Vanity of Protest 48
  • For Any Leper Named Christopher 49
  • To Harrow Hell 50
  • Measurements by Moonlight 51
  • Musings on an Implacable Athena 52
  • In Praise of Brother Rabbit 53
  • From Hermes to Apollo 54
  • Cenotaph: A Piece of the Continent 55
  • In Praise of All Small Vessels 56
  • Remembering Statius 57
  • Psychomachia: 58
  • Repetens 59
  • Encounter at the State Fair 60
  • Where Sometimes Swallows Fly 61
  • In the Center of the Sunlit City 62
  • Worn Like Spring 63
  • In Absence of Analog 64
  • Despite the Desired Lie 65
  • Christmas 66
  • After Meister Eckhart. 67
  • In the Miserific Emergency 68
  • Lurking in the Garden 69
  • Through the Dark Doorway 70
  • St. Francis to the Birds 71
  • A Crocus as a Cro-Magnon Crow Croaking 72
  • April Repetens 73
  • Revisiting the Ancestral Home. 74
  • Parenthesis: To the Flute Player 75
  • If I Praise the High Gods 76
  • Autumn Voice in August 77
  • The Unaccustomed View 78
  • In The Mirror of Your Eyes 79
  • To Name a Bond 80
  • Turning Leaves 81
  • In the Absence of the Sun 82
  • To a Perennial Reductionist 83
  • Above the Bright Eye 84
  • Meanwhile Ran a Gazelle 85
  • To Artemis 86
  • Speaking of Gazelles 87
  • On Encountering Her Again 88
  • The Return 89
  • To a Friend 90
  • Where Worlds Begin to Meet 91
  • In the Forest of the Brain 92
  • Against Dark Angels 93
  • For Human Holding 94
  • Binocular Vision Without Benefit of Glasses 95
  • What George Should Have Done 96
  • The Dragon Rein 97
  • Riding the Sphinx 98
  • The Old Omar Is Invited Indoors 99
  • To a Psychologist Who Unwittingly 100
  • (A) Where Storms Come From and (B) Why 101
  • Response to a Friend 102
  • After Our Roles Are Played 103
  • Rather Than to Gods 104
  • Adelbert Miltiades Preis 105
  • In Me Miracled 106
  • Sometimes by Night 107
  • The Beautiful Sea-Green Hunters 108
  • Let the Earth Not Break 109
  • If I Am Spider 110
  • From a Cloven World 111
  • To an Enameler 112
  • Mariners and Makers 113
  • On Imageable Gods 114
  • Rather Than Scientific Laws and Permanent Gods 115
  • For Neanderthals 116
  • One Pot to Another 117
  • Twenty-First-Century Women's Lib 118
  • Unquartered Sun 119
  • To Homer, With Love 120
  • Moment in the Sun 121
  • By Big Bald Creek 122
  • Pavane 123
  • To Wage Winter Light 124
  • Under the Diamond Pulse 125


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