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 Observatory
11
On the Scientific Train
12
Of Tigers and Other Turns 13
On the World Food Conference
14
Against All -Ists and -Isms
15
On the Immortal Gods' Voices 1
6
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