Delicate Bait

Delicate Bait

Contents

I
Aunt El	3
Outside of Town	5
Destin	6
Reading the Latest History of the Bomb	7
Spinout	8
The Next One	10
Listening	11
Go Ahead	14
Strange Bloom	15
At the Mall, Late	16
To Molly on Her Sixteenth Birthday	17
Truth of the Matter	18
There We Are	20
Venice, 1979	22
Repairman	23
Motels	24
Taxi Dancer, Montana, 1936	26
Museum of Local History	27
Why We're Here	29
Retirements in the Neighborhood	30
Clearing in the West	31
Thrown Back Light	32
On a Chinese Scroll, Composing Poetry on a Spring Outing
(Late 12th Century)	33
Letter to Jim Doyle	35
For a Christening in Innishannon	37
Milton's Grave	38
The Table	39
Delicate Bait	41
An Afternoon's Walk	44
Alone in the House	46
Summers at the Lake	48
Planting Trees	49

II
Digging: Metal and Glass	53
No Distance	54
For Instance	55
Now and a Pile of Sticks	58
The Way Two Horses Stand	59
Reasonable Conversation	60
These Days	62
Local Habitation	63
Free Fall	66
Wire Fences	68
Man Walking Home With a Stick	69
Middle of the Street	71
Farmers	73
Glancing Out the Window	74
Accidental Archaeology	75
Farming	76
The Place We Came Ashore	77
Dispersal	78
The Meadow	79
Naming the Grasses	81
Yes	83
Bad Sit	86
Wind From the South	88
The Fox	89
Free Coaster	90
Crystal of Gloom	92
Gully	93
Love Song, in Phoebe	95