Polecat Song

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword x
4. Late Poems (2015–2018)
5. Waiting 3
6. Untitled 6
7. Country poems after Virgil's Georgics 7
8. “… Also in Rejoicing …” 12
9. On your 18^th 13
10. Night Words for All the Islands 14
11. Three Lyrics 15
12. Oedipus at the Crossroads 17
13. The Nieces 21
14. Rhymeless in Season 22
15. Quatrains 23
16. Quatre Études 25
17. Midsummer 30
18. High Up on the Top Floor 33
19. Clockwise 34
20. Dahlias 35
21. Enduring Prophecy 36
22. Thaw 37
23. Improvisations 38
24. Queen Anne's Lace 42
25. Macdonald Park: September, 2015 43
26. Polecat Song 45
27. Spring 46
28. May Rain 47
29. Nausicaa Meets a Stranger 48
30. Alien Newcomers 50
31. You, as a Stranger 52
32. Going Away Now 54
33. Travel Documents for All Souls 55
34. envoi 58
35. Varadero, 2017 60
36. Epilogues to Summer 65
37. Hymn for No Singing 67
38. O Summerland 69
39. Prayer 73
40. Approaching the Strait 74
41. Dinner with Random Gods 75
42. (Les Préludes, sonnet before creation) 77
43. Migration in Orange 78
44. The Pantheon 79
45. Pacific 80
46. Zinnias Imposed 82
47. The Art History Brief Sonnet 84
48. (Des tristes esprits: sonnet from history) 85
49. Farmscape 86
50. A Shade-Sonnet Comes 87
51. Imitations of Hafiz 88
52. November Footnote (Moon) 90
53. A Selection of Earlier Poems
54. The Wrong Side of the Park 92
55. Old Friends 93
56. Getting to Missouri 95
57. For Bill in April 100
58. Vine Street 101
59. At the Museum 102
60. Untitled 103
61. Travelling 105
62. Summer Again 109
63. Rosaceae 110
64. Self-Portrait: as an Old House 113
65. Damage 115
66. Memorial 116
67. Nocturne: John Field 117
68. Aubade 118
69. Gallus Absconditus 119
70. Illuminations 120
71. Kentville, October 122
72. Two Views 123
73. (last lines, discovered on a phone bill) 124