I.
Spuyten Duyvil - 3

II.
Cut Outs - 21
Portrait of Manet’s Wife - 22
In Mrs. N’s Palace - 23
Poem for the Beginning - 25
Hotel Breakfast - 27
Premonition - 28
Poem for the End - 29
Cleis - 34
Birthday - 36
Shenandoah - 38
Letter in Late July - 40
A Green Place - 42

III.
Dream - 47
Legacies - 48
Sitting for Inge Morath - 51
In the Circus, 1905 - 52
To Janet, On Galileo - 53
First Time: 1950 - 56
Ruth - 58
Younger Brother - 59
Poem in Four Movements for my Sister Marian - 63
My Mother’s Moustache - 70
Placemats - 73
Memoir - 75

Notes - 79