In a prominent bar in Secaucus: new and selected poems, 1955-2007

First confession

Solitary confinement

On a child who lived one minute

Faces from a bestiary

Nude descending a staircase

The autumn in Norfolk Shipyard

Warning to sculptors

Lewis Carroll

In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day

Barking dog blues

Inscriptions after fact : Lilith ; The sirens ; Narcissus suitor ; Theater of Dionysus

At the stoplight by the paupers' graves

Little elegy

Ladies looking for lice

B negative

At the ghostwriter's deathbed

Rondel

One A.M. with voices

Cross ties

Poets

Nothing in heaven functions as it ought

Creation morning

Traveler's warnings : Main Road west ; Edgar's story ; National shrine ; Peace and plenty ; Driving cross-country

Reading trip

Requiem in Hoboken

For a maiden lady

Pottery class

Absentminded bartender

Loose woman

Ant trap

West Somerville, Mass. : Day seven ; The ascent ; Golgotha

Ode

Two apparitions

Artificer

Daughter in the house

The shorter view

Giving in to you

Song: great chain of being

Consumer's report

The atheist's stigmata

In a secret field

Mining town

Schizophrenic girl

Evening tide

A little night music

Celebrations after the death of john Brennan

Talking dust bowl blues

Song to the tune of "Somebody stole my gal"

In a dry season

A footpath near Gethsemane

Dirty English potatoes

Goblet

Aunt Rectita's Good Friday

Hangover mass

One-night homecoming

October

Joshua

Old men pitching horseshoes

To Dorothy on her exclusion from the Guinness book of world records

At the last rites for two hotrodders

Flitting flies

The death of Professor Backwards

At Brown Crane Pavilion

On the proposed seizure of twelve graves in a colonial cemetery

A Beardsley moment

The arm

Twelve dead, hundreds homeless

The Waterbury cross

Veterinarian

The animals you eat

Snug

Overnight pass

Two from Guillaume Apollinaire : Pont Mirabeau ; Churchbells

To the writers forbidden to write

Terse elegy for J.V. Cunningham

On being accused of wit

Emily Dickinson leaves a message to the world now that her homestead in Amherst has an answering machine

The withdrawn gift

On the square

Dump

Summer children

Tableau intime

Finis

Black velvet art

"The purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once"

Jimmy Harlow

Naomi Trimmer

Five-and-dime, late thirties

Sailors with the clap

For Allen Ginsberg

Thebes: in the robber village

Close call

Street moths

Décor

The ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James

A scandal in the suburbs

To his lover, that she be not overdressed

The blessing of the bikes

Sharing the score

A curse on a thief

Pie

Shriveled meditation

Meditation in the bedroom of General Francisco Franco

Maples in January

September Twelfth, 2001

Panic in the carwash

At Paestum

Rites

Small house torn down to build a larger

Uncertain burial

Innocent times

Epiphany

Furnished rental

Brotherhood

Death of a window washer

Pacifier

Geometry

Silent cell phones

Fireflies

Mrs. Filbert's golden quarters

Jerry Christmas

Poor people in church

Sonnet beginning with a line and a half abandoned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

God's obsequies

Storehouse

At the antiques fair

Secret river

Command decision

Bald eagle

Meeting a friend again after thirty years

Finding a tintype

Out of tune with the stars

Envoi.