The book of shadows: new & selected poems

New poems (2006-2008): The sailor's wife

Shot glass

The heel

Beer bottle

Work in a coffin factory

Through an oval window

Maraca man

Trading a bucket of water for the moon

Between the first and second shoe dropping

Because.

Uncollected poems (1980-2005): Quatrain

I kiss you across the many hundreds of miles that separate us

The first time I saw Paris

The bus, again

Poem (for Lawson Inada)

Lorca's ship

Pillow talk

Towels

Blue fields

Cardboard boat in open water

Memory

Walking into the heart of Panama

24 September 1973

In the fall

Everything is metaphor

A fossil fern, 1944

Korea's lonely California Beach

Poem for Thomas Tranströmer

Were you there with me?

Estate

A few days before September

Ode to coins

The nail

For a sister lost in water

Where two rivers meet

Her continent

Her village

At sea, in January

The foghorn breaks his heart

A road away from the sea is difficult

In the harbor our sleep rusts quietly

One for Yannis Ritsos

He would have said

Verükte Jutte

He tells you

In line at the Post Office

Whiskey bottle, rolling pin

The iron boat's oar

Black suits, badges

Dark Jakis

Clabber

The basement room.

Shadows, a sequence (2005): He dreamed

An ecology lesson?

On a sad day

How shadow lost face

Shadow piscator

Amores

Yupik shadows

No shadow left behind

Shadows can be kilters

Do shadows grow old?

Shadows camp out

Who says shadows do not dream?

Shadows in time of war

The birds and the bees and the shadows

Shadow can read your book

Shadow does time.

From The shingle weaver's journal (1980): Scapulamancie

The way a ship slides down

The dream

To watch ships

In defense

Maine

Two for Pablo

The caves along the Osage

Kansas, eighty four years later

Marks on "J" Street

Pyrite

The shingle weaver

Grindstone Mountain

Ceder Butte look-out

Tupper

The knot

Ghosts

I feel like

The shingle weaver's journal.

From Nightmarks (1990): Dilettante

L'Age d'Or

An edited version of the film All that trembles is not the earth starring Robert Redford

Two states

Autumnal

Slim

The birch plywood skin of just possibly the world's largest aircraft despite its name is really the skin of Howard Hughes' soul and will never fly again

Dead Man's Curve

Rust on the tracks follows the last train down the line

Once there was a way, maybe

The seventh wave of sadness

José Espuelasdoradas y Cuero

The first white butterfly of spring = La primera mariposa de la primavera

The gate

Poem suggested by a line from the Irish poet of Liscannor, Aodh Buí MacCruitín

A song for the revolution

An Irish postcard : schoolgirls walking below Kylemore Abbey

Under the bridge one woman faces another to speak of rain or early evening

Words of the ex-fisherman to his ex-wife

Nelson Island

Mazarrón

The hills of distant loves lie

Moon mullins

The lightkeepers

Kalskag journal.

From A suitcase full of crows (1995): Cross country

Leaving

Bus ride

Likely, California

Early spring morning flight to Bethel

Endings for stick novels

Piute

Here : other nations

Poem for 1992

Noticing

Return

Finding Miraflores

Sea fans

Craps

Field, burning

The penned-up wild horses at Hallelujah Junction

Moonrise over Horse Heaven Hills

I pray for peace in the Nugget as the Middle East WAr breaks out

Canyon echoes

Bearing walls

A sentence on the first sounds of Ireland

Walking home late from Cahirderry

The teeth of a rake on a makeshift forge

In the post office tears pile up, unopened

Time

The maze

Connemara ponies

At Doolin quay

Islands

The half tower

Half island

Lahinch

Lament for the man whose aim is good

Security Central Belfast Railway Station

Cogadh, war

North

Poem

Letterkelly West

Waterclock under Curroch O'Dea

Padraic's poem

August 1, 1985

Caoindeadh

Funeral in Miltown

Walking along the hills above Cloonanaha.