Aimless love: new and selected poems

from Nine horses (2002) Country Velocity "More than a woman" Aimless love Absence Royal aristocrat Paris Istanbul Love Obituaries Today Creatures Tipping point Nine horses Litany Literary life Writing in the afterlife No time Elk River Falls Christmas sparow Surprise Poetry

from The trouble with poetry (2005) Monday Statues in the dark House The long day In the evening Flock Building with its face blown off The lanyard Boy shooting at a statue Genius The order of the day The centrifuge The revenant Carry Fool me good Evening alone The trouble with poetry

from Ballistics (2008) Brightly colored boats upturned on the banks of the Charles Searching High The four-moon planet No things The first night January in Paris Ballistics Pornography Greek and Roman statuary Scenes of hell Hippos on holiday Lost Tension The golden years Vermont, early November The effort The lamps unlit China Looking forward (detail) Adage The flight of the statues Baby listening Bathtub families The fish A dog on his master The great American poem Divorce This little piggy went to market Old man eating alone in a Chinese restaurant Oh, my God! The future Envoy

from Horoscopes for the dead (2011) Grave Palermo Memento mori The Guest Gold Genesis Horoscopes for the dead Hell Simple arithmetic Hell A Question about birds Watercoloring Poem on the 300th anniversary of the Trinity School Chairs that no one sits in Memorizing "The Sun Rising" by John Donne My unborn children Hangover Table talk Delivery What she said Drawing you from memory Cemetery ride Lakeside My hero Poetry workshop held in a former cigar factory in Key West Returning the pencil to its tray

New poems. The sandhill cranes of Nebraska

Foundling

Catholicism

Carrara

Report from the subtropics

Lesson for the day

Promenade

The unfortunate traveler

Drinking alone

To my favorite 17-year-old high school girl

Animal behavior

Lincoln

Note to Antonin Dvorak

Sunday walk

The suggestion box

Cheerios

Elusive

Looking for a friend in a crow of arriving passengers: a sonnet

Digging

Central Park

Osprey

Here and there

Villanelle

Lines written af Flying Point Beach

Lines written in a garden by a cottage in Hererfordshire

American Airlines #371

Keats: or how I got my negative capability back

The music of the spheres

Orient

Heraclitus on vacation

Ode to a desk lamp

Irish poetry

After the funeral

Best fall

France

Rome in June

The deep

Biographical notes in an Anthology of Haiku

Florida in December

Dining alone

Lucky bastards

"I love you"

Unholy sonnett #1

If this were a job I'd be fired

Friends in the dark

Flying over west Texas at Christmas

Last meal

A word about transitions

The names.