Lake Como

The Last Hours of Laódikê, Sister of Hektor

Trópico

14 rue Serpentine (1-14)

Robert Desnos in Havana, 1928

Ultima Thule

The Woman in the Quarter Moon Kimono

The Desert

Haiku

From On Tour with Rita (1982)

Double Solitaire

Walt Whitman at the Reburial of Poe

The Track

Heat

The Road from Pisa to Florence

On the Meridian

Rimbaud Crossing the Alps

Nocturne for Miranda

On Tour with Rita

# 1 Mexico

#7 Vermont

#11 New Year's Day

#13 Boston

From A Short History of the Island of Butterflies (1986)

The Public Gardens

Cardiac Arrest

Radium

Construction Site, Windy Night

Evening

Losing Altitude

Lineage

The House Where Lord Rochester Died

Leaving Town

The Partisan

Reflections on a Bowl of Kumquats, 1936

Winter Night

The Milky Way from Brenda's Lawn

Jeoffry the Cat

Musical Chairs

From Desperate Characters (1988)

Krazy Kat

Green Animals

Collecting Stamps in Port-au-Prince

Elegy for my Grandmother

Christmas, 1956

Map

From In the Year of the Comet (1992)

Outside Perpignan in Heavy Rain

Green Chair on a Fire Escape in Autumn

Reading the Sunday Comics, Summer 1962

Epitaph on a Dictator

Mrs. Luna

Jazz

Through the Window of the All-Night Restaurant

In the Country

Scarlet Lake

Cancer Ward

On the Peninsula

Stars

Approaching Antarctica

In the Year of the Comet

From 5° & Other Poems (1995)

Hibiscus Tea

The Quiñero Sisters, 1968

Terminus

The Skeleton of a Trout in Shallow Water

When the Hurricane Swerved Toward the Island

After a Long Illness

A Storm

Assignation After Attending a Funeral

The Palm Reader

Hanalei Valley

5°

#1 Down the long avenues the north wind

#3 In a letter to his brother Theo

#5 Displayed in the coin shop window

#6 Between the thick ice and the gray waters

#10 A man with a telescope on a marble runway

#11 "Iron occurs native in meteorites (according to

#13 In 1910 Houdini was the first man to fly

#15 An angel is signing his name in blue light

#16 On the other side of the world

#18 John Davis, explorer and navigator, died the night

#19 In October, 1888, Paul Gauguin, joined van Gogh

#22 The Hyperboreans - "people beyond the North Wind" -

#24 The polestar (Polaris) during the Dark Ages

#25 The Voyager 2 satellite, launched from Florida

#26 "Iron" in Sumerian means "metal from heaven."

#31 Of the eighteen cities called Alexandria that Alexander

#32 Refracted by frozen clouds, the moon's

From The Creation of the Night Sky (1998)

Midsummer

X Rays

Antiquities

Jupiter Place, 1955

Birds of Paradise in Ice Water

Uncle Phillip's Funeral in Las Vegas

Sleep

On a Clear Night

Suicide Watch

A Visitor

The Creation of the Night Sky

From Atomic Field: Two Poems (2000)

1962

#7 A girl dyeing her bathing suit in a tub of hot water

#14 There is always someone on crutches in this luncheonette

#20 At the bus stop a blind man sells colored pencils

#22 At P.S. 28

#24 Six doors down, a beautiful young woman

#25 In my most recurring nightmare

#27 Successive snowstorms have lined the streets

#28 With a shard of ice I scratch my name

#35 The flesh the flesh-eating plants eat

#38 On the 27th of October I am told to say my prayers

#40 When my friend casts his line by moonlight

#41 In pointy shoes that lace up the sides - twist shoes -

#44 In a house outlined by Christmas lights

1972

#1 On New Year's Eve

#3 A room illuminated by the rays of black crystals

#4 In the waiting room a woman

#7 When she comes off her shift at the VA hospital

#9 The pulse I feel behind my knees

#13 Sleeping in a cold room on the rue de Rennes

#16 We're on a mountain overlooking Spain that can only be climbed

#23 The rain crossing the tarred rooftops stops suddenly

#26 The nightclub lies in a labyrinth of tunnels

#27 As the sun gilds the Arno and shades the stern faces

#29 A church filled with fiery flowers

#34 On the southern coast of Crete

#38 Today while snow slants into Manhattan

#39 The books are piled high in the corners

#43 Trucks are salting the streets

#44 From my corner table beneath a blue light

#45 Tomorrow, the New Year, the world begins anew