Includes bibliographical references (p. 88).

Iowa, January -- After Trakl -- Envy of other people's poems -- A supple wreath of myrtle -- Futures in lilacs -- Three dawn songs in summer -- The distribution of happiness -- Etymology -- The problem of describing color -- The problem of describing trees -- Winged and acid dark -- A swarm of dawns, a flock of restless noons -- Breach and Orison -- The world as will and representation -- After the winds -- For Czes±aw Mi±osz in Kraków -- Time and materials -- Art and life -- Domestic interiors -- Twin dolphins -- Then time -- That music -- Czes±aw Mi±osz: In memoriam -- Horace: Three imitations -- Tomas Tranströmer: Song -- State of the planet -- Poem with a cucumber in it -- Drift and vapor (surf faintly) -- "...white of forgetfulness, whit of safety" -- After goethe -- I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri -- A poem -- Bush's war -- Pears -- The dry mountain air -- First things at the last minute -- Poet's work -- Mouth slightly open -- Old movie with the sound turned off -- Ezra Pound's proposition -- On visiting the Dmz at Panmunjom: A Haibun -- Consciousness -- Exit, pursued by a Sierra meadow -- September, inverness.