Selected poems

Valentines to the Wide World, 1959. Three valentines to the wide world

The Gentle snorer

Woman waiting

Death by aesthetics

A relative and an absolute

A kind of music

Toward a definition of marriage

A Time of Bees, 1964. Elementary attitudes

Recovery

Pot-au-Feu

Notes from a suburban heart

Quebec Suite

Earth tremors felt in Missouri

A garland for Christopher Smart

The Gardener to his God

Sestina for warm seasons

Open letter, Personal

An Annual and Perennial problem

To See, to Take, 1970. A Christmas card, after the assassinations

Causes

Leda

The Creation

The Pieta, Rhenish, 14th C., the Cloisters

Advice to a God

Billings and cooings from the Berkeley Barb (Want-Ad Section)

Footnotes to The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Postcards from Cape Split

In the hospital for tests

Remedies, maladies, reasons

Open letter from a Constant Reader

The Miser

Relationships

The Twins

Leda reconsidered

Bedtime Stories, 1972. Bedtime Stories

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Nine

Twelve

New Poems from Merciful Disguises, 1973. Peony stalks

Midas and wife

Economics

The Talker

The Cities of the plain

A small excursion

End of May

What the motorcycle said

A view

Letters from a Father, and Other Poems, 1982. Lives of the poets

Growing up askew

Photographs

The Stream

In the Missouri Ozarks

Moose in the morning, Northern Maine

The Learners

Caring for surfaces

The Vision test

The Ballad of Blossom

Near Changes, 1990. Birthstones

Late loving

Views

Pigeon eggs

In bed with a book

To a friend who threw away hair dyes

Gardens

The Insight lady of St. Louis on zoos

The Block

Memoir

Headlines

Double Sonnet for Minimalists

Sonnet for Minimalists

Firefall, 1993. Addendum to "The Block"

The Marriage sculptor

Poets in late winter

Rascasse

"We are in your area"

Endings

For May Swenson

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat in the kitchen

Late wishes

Insiders

Long stretch

The Beginning

Miranda grows up

Closures

Falls

The Delivery

Notes to "Firefall".