Musicality (1988)
Musicality 203
Fair Realism (1989)
Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights 209
La Noche Entra en Calor 210
The View from Kandinsky’s Window 212
The Thread 213
Ilex 214
Spring Vine 218
Dora Maar 218
An Emphasis Falls on Reality 221
Valuable Mörike 223
The Rose Marble Table 224
Shuffling Light 225
The Screen of Distance 226
Heavy Violets 232
The Farewell Stairway 232
Words 237
Twilight Polka Dots 237
The Nude 238
Western Additives 243
In Medieval Hollow 244
Bleat 245
Ropes Sway 246
Country Cousins 247
Savannahs 248
The Cradle of Culture 250
Lawn Bumps 251
Tessera 254
Defensive Rapture (1993)
I
Paulownia 259
Dove 261
Expectation 266
Geese Blood 268
Fleet of White 270
Atmospheres 272
The Surface as Object 274
II
Defensive Rapture 277
Beautiful/Evil 279
Borrowed Mirror, Filmic Rise 280
Restlessness 280
Chalk 283
III
Borderlands 288
Dissonance Royal Traveller 289
The Advance of the Grizzly 293
The Glass Mountain 295
Otranto 300
Winter Horses 304
IV
The Altos 308
from 1991
Stripped Tales (1995)
structured / immediacy 315
/ lottery can guess 315
the moment / a noun / settles into space 315
/ germination begins 316
undermining / 316
opposing ideas / 317
/ which-away 317
philosophy / in Norway 317
moody / adjectivalness 318
need / to identify