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

1. Baseball, I warrant, is not
occupation of the aging boy.
Far from it: There are cats and r
there is her water body. She fills
the skin of her legs up, like wate

All winter your brute shoulders st
and steerhide over the ash hames,
sledges of cordwood for drying thr
for the Glenwood stove next winter
In April you pulled cartloads of

Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft
If one of you found a gap in a sto
the rest of you—rams, ewes, bucks,
mothers and daughters, old grandfa
cousins and aunts, small bleating

“At pet stores in Detroit, you ca
frozen rats
for seventy-five cents apiece, to
your pet boa constrictor”
back home in Grosse Pointe,

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.

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

Some days, when you read the newsp
Poetry, then, appears to be:
1. a vacuous synonym for excellenc
2. It is universally agreed that n
3. It is universally agreed that t

“Even when I danced erect
by the Nile’s garden
I constructed Necropolis.
Ten million fellaheen cells
of my body floated stones