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

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

In the mid August, in the second
of my First Polar Expedition, the
almost upon us, Kantiuk and I
attempted to dash the sledge
along Crispin Bay, searching agai

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

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

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

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.

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

Between pond and sheepbarn, by map
Rebecca paces a double line of rus
in a sandy trench, striding on bla
creosoted eight-by-eights.
In nineteen-forty-three,

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.