When you like a woman,
you talk and talk.
One night you kiss.
Another night you fuck.
You’re both content,

A storm was coming, that was why i
A child walked outside. I knew th
The elephant was taller than the r
The lion backed off, whining. The
Out of the window I saw zebras an

when my father had been dead a wee
I woke
with his voice in my ear
I sat up in bed
and held my breath

The clock of my days winds down.
The cat eats sparrows outside my w
Once, she brought me a small rabbi
which we devoured together, under
the Empire Table

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

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.

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

Each morning I made my way
among gangways, elevators,
and nurses’ pods to Jane’s room
to interrogate the grave helpers
who tended her through the night

Twelve people, most of us stranger
in Ann Arbor, drinking Cribari fr
Then two young men, who cooked him
carry him to the table
on a large square of plywood: his

At the edge of the city the picker
vomits and dies. The river
with its white hair staggers to th
My life lay crumpled like a smashe
Windows barred, ivy, square stone.