Katie could put her feet behind he
Or do a grand plié, position two,
Her suppleness magnificent in bed.
I strained my lower back, and Kat
Only a little, doing what we could

1. I see no reason to spend your l
An ambitious project—but sensible,
2. If I recommend ambition, I do
Every now and then I meet someone
But I just called high ambition s

Mount Kearsarge shines with ice;
snow slides onto snow; no stream,
budges but remains still. Tonight
we carry armloads of logs
from woodshed to Glenwood and buil

December twenty-first
we gather at the white Church fest
red and green, the tree flashing
green-red lights beside the altar.
After the children of Sunday Scho

Images leap with him from branch t
brighten, his head cocks, he pause
alert.
And when I see him I want to hide
The other wood is past the hill.

If he and she do not know each oth
they will not meet again; if he av
if she has grown insensible skin u
only the tribute of another’s cry;
as revenge on old lovers or famili

High on a slope in New Guinea
The Grumman Hellcat
lodges among bright vines
as thick as arms. In 1943,
the clenched hand of a pilot

August, goldenrod blowing. We wal
into the graveyard, to find
my grandfather’s grave. Ten years
I came here last, bringing
marigolds from the round garden

To grow old is to lose everything.
Aging, everybody knows it.
Even when we are young,
we glimpse it sometimes, and nod o
when a grandfather dies.

“Up, down, good, bad,” said
the man with the tubes
up his nose, " there’s lots
of variety…
However, notions