Map (40 page)

A Memory,
[>]

A Moment in Troy,
[>]

Among the Multitudes,
[>]

—and now a few steps,
[>]

And who's this little fellow in his itty-bitty robe?,
[>]

An Effort,
[>]

An endless rain is just beginning,
[>]

A new star has been discovered,
[>]

An Idea,
[>]

An idea came to me,
[>]

An Interview with Atropos,
[>]

An Occurrence,
[>]

An odd planet, and those on it are odd, too,
[>]

An Opinion on the Question of Pornography,
[>]

A Note,
[>]
,
[>]

An Unexpected Meeting,
[>]

A Paleolithic Fertility Fetish,
[>]

Apple Tree,
[>]

Archeology,
[>]

As a short subject before the main feature—,
[>]

A scorching day, a doghouse and a dog on a chain,
[>]

As long as nothing can be known for sure,
[>]

A Speech at the Lost-and-Found,
[>]

Assassins,
[>]

Astonishment,
[>]

A Tale Begun,
[>]

Atlantis,
[>]

At midnight, in an empty, hushed art gallery,
[>]

At the Airport,
[>]

Autotomy,
[>]

 

Ballad,
[>]

Before a Journey,
[>]

Beheading,
[>]

Beloved Brethren,
[>]

Best case scenario—,
[>]

Birthday,
[>]

Black Song,
[>]

Bodybuilders' Contest,
[>]

Bookstores don't provide,
[>]

Born,
[>]

Brueghel's Two Monkeys,
[>]

Buffo,
[>]

 

Cat in an Empty Apartment,
[>]

Cave,
[>]

Census,
[>]

Certainty,
[>]

Chains,
[>]

Children of Our Age,
[>]

Circus Animals,
[>]

Classifieds,
[>]

Clochard,
[>]

Clothes,
[>]

Clouds,
[>]

Coloratura,
[>]

Comic Love Poem,
[>]

Commemoration,
[>]

Compulsion,
[>]

Conceived on a mattress made of human hair,
[>]

Confessions of a Reading Machine,
[>]

Consolation,
[>]

Conversation with a Stone,
[>]

Could Have,
[>]

 

Darwin.,
[>]

Dear individual soul, this is the Styx,
[>]

Dear mermaids, it was bound to happen,
[>]

Décolletage
comes from
decollo,
[>]

Despite the geologists' knowledge and craft,
[>]

Die—you can't do that to a cat,
[>]

Dinosaur Skeleton,
[>]

Discovery,
[>]

Distraction,
[>]

Divorce,
[>]

Don't take jesters into outer space,
[>]

Dream,
[>]

Dreams,
[>]

Dreams flickered on white canvas,
[>]

 

Early Hour,
[>]

Elegiac Calculation,
[>]

Ella in Heaven,
[>]

Epitaph,
[>]

Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem,
[>]

Everyone Sometime,
[>]

Everyone sometime has somebody close die,
[>]

Everything,
[>]

Everything seems to agree,
[>]

Everything's mine but just on loan,
[>]

Evicted from the Garden long before,
[>]

Example,
[>]

Experiment,
[>]

 

Faces,
[>]

Falling from the Sky,
[>]

Family Album,
[>]

Faster than sound today,
[>]

Few of them made it to thirty,
[>]

First, our love will die, alas,
[>]

First Love,
[>]

Flagrance,
[>]

Flat as the table,
[>]

Foraminifera,
[>]

For me the tragedy's most important act is the sixth:,
[>]

For the kids the first ending of the world,
[>]

For unclear reasons,
[>]

Four
A.M.
,
[>]

Four billion people on this earth,
[>]

From scalp to sole, all muscles in slow motion,
[>]

From trapeze to,
[>]

Frozen Motion,
[>]

Funeral (I),
[>]

Funeral (II),
[>]

 

Going Home,
[>]

Golden Anniversary,
[>]

Greek Statue,
[>]

Greeting the Supersonics,
[>]

Ground-to-ground,
[>]

 

Hand,
[>]

Hania,
[>]

Happenstance reveals its tricks,
[>]

Hard Life with Memory,
[>]

Hatred,
[>]

Hear the ballad “Murdered Woman,
[>]

He came home. Said nothing,
[>]

He doesn't arrive en masse,
[>]

He glanced, gave me extra charm,
[>]

He made himself a glass violin so he could see what music,
[>]

Here,
[>]

Here are plates but no appetite,
[>]

Here comes Her Highness—well, you know who I mean,
[>]

Here I am, Cassandra,
[>]

Here lies, old-fashioned as parentheses,
[>]

Her mad songs over, Ophelia darts out,
[>]

Hermitage,
[>]

He would,
[>]

—Hey! the little boy wonders,
[>]

Highway Accident,
[>]

His skull, dug up from clay,
[>]

Hitler's First Photograph,
[>]

How many of those I knew,
[>]

 

I, Number Three Plus Four Divided by Seven,
[>]

I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son,
[>]

I am too close for him to dream of me,
[>]

I am who I am,
[>]

I asked him about the old days,
[>]

I believe in the great discovery,
[>]

I can't speak for elsewhere,
[>]

Identification,
[>]

I'd have to be really quick,
[>]

I don't reproach the spring,
[>]

I dreamed I was looking for something,
[>]

I dream that I'm woken,
[>]

If the gods' favorites die young—,
[>]

If there are angels,
[>]

If we'd been allowed to choose,
[>]

I hear trumpets play the tune,
[>]

I knock at the stone's front door,
[>]

I know I'll be greeted by silence, but still,
[>]

I'll bet you think the room was empty,
[>]

I'll never find out now,
[>]

I lost a few goddesses while moving south to north,
[>]

I'm a poor audience for my memory,
[>]

I'm a tranquilizer,
[>]

I misbehaved in the cosmos yesterday,
[>]

I'm still asleep,
[>]

I'm Working on the World,
[>]

In a Mail Coach,
[>]

In Broad Daylight,
[>]

In danger, the holothurian cuts itself in two,
[>]

In Fact Every Poem,
[>]

In heavenly May, under an apple tree, lovely,
[>]

In Heraclitus's River,
[>]

In my dreams,
[>]

Innocence,
[>]

In Paris, on a day that stayed morning until dusk,
[>]

In Praise of Dreams,
[>]

In Praise of Feeling Bad about Yourself,
[>]

In Praise of My Sister,
[>]

Interview with a Child,
[>]

In the old master's landscape,
[>]

In the Park,
[>]

In the poem's opening words,
[>]

In the snapshot of a crowd,
[>]

In the town where the hero was born you may:,
[>]

In this quiet we can still hear,
[>]

Into the Ark,
[>]

In Trite Rhymes,
[>]

I owe so much,
[>]

I prefer movies,
[>]

I remember that childhood fear well,
[>]

I should have begun with this: the sky,
[>]

Island where all becomes clear,
[>]

It can't take a joke,
[>]

It could have happened,
[>]

It has come to this: I'm sitting under a tree,
[>]

It's been and gone,
[>]

It's good you came—she says,
[>]

I've made a list of questions,
[>]

I walk on the slope of a hill gone green,
[>]

I wear beads around my neck,
[>]

I wield imagination's oldest right,
[>]

 

Job, sorely tried in both flesh and possessions, curses man's fate,
[>]

Just imagine what I dreamed,
[>]

 

Key,
[>]

Kyoto is fortunate,
[>]

 

Labyrinth,
[>]

Landscape,
[>]

“
La Pologne? La Pologne?
Isn't it terribly cold there?” she asked,
[>]

Laughter,
[>]

Lazarus Takes a Walk,
[>]

Leaving the Movie Theater,
[>]

Lesson,
[>]

Life, you're beautiful (I say),
[>]

Life is the only way,
[>]

Life While-You-Wait,
[>]

Likeness,
[>]

List,
[>]

Little girls—,
[>]

Lot's Wife,
[>]

Love at First Sight,
[>]

Lovers,
[>]

 

Madame Atropos?,
[>]

Magic is dying out, although the heights,
[>]

Map,
[>]

May 16, 1973,
[>]

Maybe All This,
[>]

Me—a teenager?,
[>]

Memory Finally,
[>]

Memory's finally found what it was after,
[>]

Metaphysics,
[>]

Microcosmos,
[>]

Midsummer Night's Dream,
[>]

Military Parade,
[>]

Miracle Fair,
[>]

Mirror,
[>]

Moment,
[>]

Moment of Silence,
[>]

Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History,
[>]

Motion,
[>]

Museum,
[>]

My apologies to chance for calling it necessity,
[>]

My fallen, my turned to dust, my earth,
[>]

My imagination sentenced me to this journey,
[>]

My nonarrival in the city of N.,
[>]

My shadow is a fool whose feelings,
[>]

My sister doesn't write poems,
[>]

 

Negative,
[>]

Night,
[>]

No End of Fun,
[>]

Nonreading,
[>]

No one in this family has ever died of love,
[>]

Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition,
[>]

Nothing can ever happen twice,
[>]

Nothing has changed,
[>]

Nothingness unseamed itself for me too,
[>]

Nothing's a Gift,
[>]

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan,
[>]

Nothing Twice,
[>]

No Title Required,
[>]

Now see, here's Hania, the good servant,
[>]

 

Oh, the leaky boundaries of man-made states!,
[>]

Old Folks' Home,
[>]

Once we had the world backwards and forwards:,
[>]

On Death, Without Exaggeration,
[>]

One of those many dates,
[>]

One Version of Events,
[>]

On the Banks of the Styx,
[>]

On the hill where Troy once stood,
[>]

“O Theotropia, my empress consort.”,
[>]