Ostrakoi 1

Death at Pocono Lake 5

Flight from Reichert’s Backyard 7

Shadowtail 11

The Sewer Dare 12

Girl with her Pigtails Crooked 16

Halloween 17

Ballade d’une jeune Parisienne 21

Corte 22

The Tandem Ride 23

Nausicaäs Song 33

Playing the Wheel 34

Cap d’antibes 35

Sooner Murder 45

Epidauros 46

Belief 54

Glory 56

The Closest Thing 58

Body Blows 63

Paolo and Francesca 66

Niké 68

The Honey of It 71

Je demande la vie éternelle 72

Cello Suite 74

Hands 76

Cambridge, the Sixties 77

The Worst Kiss 81

White Volks 82

White Shoulders 83

Twelfth Night 84

Soft Answers 85

The Names Of Perfumes 86

Muscongus Bay Sloop 87

Lutte sans cesse 90

A Toast for Ashley and Melissa 92

Final Exam 94

December Wedding 98

My Father Plays the 17th 99

Sportscast 101

Clyde Torrey 104

Be Good 106

Unanswered Prayer 109

Scars 110

Caption for a Wire Photo 111

Rome 1980 112

Beatitude / Mortmain 114

Chimeras 115

Man 116

An Ancient Quarrel 118

Metaphor 120

Pep Talk 122

Fourteen-Step Program 123

Horsegod 124

Chariot Race at Delphi 126

Ronald Wyn 130

Heavyweights 132

The Eighteenth Book 133

Take Care 134

The Poet Who Couldn’t Write a Poem to His Wife 135

Recurrent Dream Wife 136

Spirit Spouse 137

Kolonos 138

Bittersweetness 141

Notes 143

About the Author 165