Table of Contents
I Power
Power 3
Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev 4
Origins and History of Consciousness 7
Splittings 10
Hunger 12
To a Poet 15
Cartographies of Silence 16
The Lioness 21
II Twenty-One Love Poems
I Wherever in this city, screens flicker 25
II I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming 25
III Since we're not young, weeks have to do time 26
IV I come home from you through the early light of spring 26
V This apartment full of books could crack open 27
VI Your small hands, precisely equal to my own 27
VII What kind of beast would turn its life into words 28
VIII I can see myself years back at Sunion 28
IX Your silence today is a pond where drowned things live 29
X Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through 29
XI Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes 30
XII Sleeping, turning in turn like planets 30
XIII The rules break like a thermometer 31
XIV It was your vision of the pilot 31
(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered) 32
XV If I lay on that beach with you 32
XVI Across a city from you, I'm with you 33
XVII No one's fated or doomed to love anyone 33
XVIII Rain on the West Side Highway 34
XIX Can it be growing colder when I begin 34
XX That conversation we were always on the edge 35
XXI The dark lintels, the blue and foreign stones 35
III Not Somewhere Else, But Here
Not Somewhere Else, but Here 39
Upper Broadway 41
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff 42
Nights and Days 45
Sibling Mysteries 47
A Woman Dead in Her Forties 53
Mother-Right 59
Natural Resources 60
Toward the Solstice 68
Transcendental Etude 72
