The Water Gardens

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. 1
5. A Scene 3
6. Monster Poem 4
7. Sunken Forest 5
8. The Tree in Front of the Old People’s Home 6
9. Tales Out of School 7
10. The boy 8
11. Quail 9
12. After the rain 10
13. The Trees 11
14. Pacific Midnight 13
15. The Water Gardens 14
16. Bay Island 15
17. Carolina Beach 16
18. Roulette 18
19. 2
20. Short History 21
21. An Early Conversation 22
22. The Metamorphoses 23
23. A Beached Whale 24
24. Onegin 25
25. Dialogue of the Dead 27
26. A Field on Delos 28
27. A Girl 29
28. Sea Horse 30
29. Houses 31
30. Letter Found Blown Against a Fence 32
31. “—So Full of Sleep—” 33
32. Armida 35
33. Love that twisted vine 36
34. One-Sided Conversation with Henry 37
35. Private Services 38
36. A Fairly Common Story 39
37. Poem 40
38. 3
39. Moving 45
40. The wrong music 46
41. City Limits 47
42. How should I think long 49
43. Thought; Song; Speech; Silence 50
44. Aubade 54
45. One-Sided Conversation #—— 55
46. Song Under My Breath 56
47. Realizations 57
48. The Soliloquies 58
49. Sitting too high in the house 59
50. Like animals, we grow 60
51. The Flowers 61
52. This Spring: for Luverne 62
53. Because There Is Time 63
54. Walking Toward the Sun 64