The October palace: poems

What the heart wants

Red poppies

Each step

The shadow

The house in winter

Cycladic figure: the harp player (ca. 3000 B.C.E.)

History as the painter bonnard

The wedding

A plenitude

Narcissus: Tel Aviv, Baghdad, San Francisco; February 1991

For the autumn dead: election day, 1984

"Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness"

Storm: Yaddo, 1989

In the year eight hundred

The ritual

A recurring possibility

The world

Floor

The hawk cry

The sting

Autumn

What falls

The door

1973

Happiness

This love

Inspiration

The love of aged horses

At nightfall

Percolation

The groundfall pear

At the Roosevelt baths

A breakable spell

For a wedding on Mount Tamalpais

The mesmer

Under the river

Courtship

The water diamonds

For a gelding

The task

In yellow grass

Even the vanishing housed

A sweetening all around me as it falls

The November angels

Of the body

The thief

Leaving the October palace

Just below the surface

Ripeness

The weighing

Meeting the light completely

The Gods are not large

The heart as origami

An earthly beauty

Witin this tree

Empedocles' physics

The window

The stone of heaven.