- 1. Poem About People
The jaunty crop-haired graying
Women in grocery stores,
Their clothes boyish and neat,
New mittens or clean sneakers,
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- 2. At Pleasure Bay
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay
A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice.
Here under the pines a little off the road
In 1927 the Chief of Police
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- 3. The Green Piano
Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles
Torn free of charge from the universe by my mother's will.
You must have amazed that half-respectable street
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- 4. An Explanation Of America: A Love Of Death
Imagine a child from Virginia or New Hampshire
Alone on the prairie eighty years ago
Or more, one afternoonâ??the shaggy pelt
Of grasses, for the first time in that childâ??s life,
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- 5. Impossible To Tell
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert
Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn,
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- 6. Essay On Psychiatrists
I. Invocation
Itâ??s crazy to think one could describe themâ??
Calling on reason, fantasy, memory, eves and earsâ??
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- 7. The Night Game
Some of us believe
We would have conceived romantic
Love out of our own passions
With no precedents,
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