Mississippi * Green Dreams (short) * Building
Cages * 6:00 am * Snows * Plans for the Day * In Memoriam * January 15
* Who * Genius Relativity * A Pet Shoppers Guide * As * Two Boats *
Insanity Trilogy * Green Dreams (long) * So Many Poems * Not Quite a
Summer Evening * Horse Shit * Almost * A Country Walk * Priest and Bear
(Plus Supporting Cast of Characters) * Philadelphia * Allegory of the
Rose * A Birthday Greeting * Chester Vermont * Infrequently Asked
Questions (A to Z) * Raincoats * An Outing * Metaphysical Speculation *
Blindness * Lying * New York, Upstate, One Day, Three Thoughts * Old
Friend * Records * Auto-Epitaph * Flower Plots * Untitled * Far from
the Madding Cow * Missing in Reaction * Back Home * Notice * The Love
of Leaves * Sharing * The Clock * Thoughtful * Clouds * Explain This *
I Wake Up * Gazing * You and I * Exploration Leads to Discovery *
gniknihT * Fog * Why I Read the Sports Pages * What to Think * January
20, 2001 * Window * Aesthetic Polemic * Crab Spiders * The Love for
Three Operas * Poetry and Tyranny * Thanksgiving * Stars * Schubert’s
Trio in E Flat Major, Opus 100 * Gold * PTSD * Personal * Courage *
Losses * Contemporary Times * Discards * Death and Privileges * Credo
* Coffee Bar * Minutes * Riddle * Variations on a Theme by
Jacques-Lucien Monod * Tolling the Future * For What it’s Worth
Poems included in The Time I Stopped to Watch:
Bee Watching * Infrequently Asked Questions—Take 2 * I
Think I’m Going to Just Sit * Curriculum Vitae * Candles and Lists and Rats *
The Other Side of Niagara * Note to the Artist * Okapi * Resurrection * On the
Road * Cascade Falls * Collision Course
* Twisted * How Can I Tell You * Lost and Lost * Sheer Genius * Blindfolded *
Universal Language * Nursing Mother * Sharing Poem * Sarah’s Exercise * Madness
* I Predict *
Half a Dozen Candles * Central Park Counterpoint * The Bell
* Love Poem #573 * Still *
Message * Self-Portrait * Overbaugh Place * Where You Find
Yourself * Spirit of the Ancestors * Shadows * Home is Where * The Garden *
Moments * April Window * Distant Shore * Liszt Poem * I Do Not Know * Two of a
Kind * Rainwalkers * The Bakery in Oldenberg * Terror of the Baroque * The
Missing Pen * More About Clocks *
Finally I Understand Why * Dark Ages * You Left the Room *
Post Script * A Sonnet—Ruthlessly Stripped. . . . * Committing Serial Poetry *
Perfectly Legal * Mountain Memories * A Poem Is * In the Men’s Room at Carnegie
Hall * Waiting * Obsession *
Today I Bumped Into a
Friend * Poetic Justice * Definition * Somewhere * Becoming *
Attila * Without Strings * On an Ice Floe * For a Song *
Why 2k? * Ears and Hearts * Fireflies * The Disobedient Child * White Magic * I
Have Heard It Said * Ants * Dreams of Immortality * Searching * Horizons *
Pieces * Rivers * April 10, 2006 (New York City) * And You Thought * Some *
Green Ribbons * Wakes * Sixty-Two Words * On the Bench * Self-Expression * Thank-You
Note * Secular Requiem * “Super Shooter” * Belfast, Northern Ireland * Dialogue
* Passing the Old Church * In the Forest * “Russian Runs to Glory” * Tonight * Motherless
Day * May Day Trilogy * In the Meadow * After * Moonlight * Making Friends * Final
Page
