Our Purpose in Speaking.

Intro -- Contents -- Critical Care -- Sonnet: My Mother Refuses Mastectomy -- Snowfall Expected After Midnight -- Memory Is in Our Fingers -- The Phantom Hitcher -- Sonnet: Golden Retriever Abandoned in Field -- The Vinedresser -- Storm Season, Rehoboth Beach -- Wood, Shell, Star -- Love Poem (Tonight We Swell) -- Night Fishing on Chesapeake Bay -- Sonnet (One Comes, Then, Faintly Conscious) -- Snakes in Ceiling -- Adonai, Adonai -- Witch Canticle -- Jack o'Lanterns in a Row -- Sonnet: The Word Mercurial -- On Being Asked, While Mailing Poems, Whether These Packages Contain Anything Potentially Hazardous -- The Love Gods Ask -- Sonnet: Capitol Hill, 1981 -- Critical Care -- Our Purpose In Speaking -- Sonnet: Francis to the Birds -- Fifty-four Acres -- The Swimmer -- At Summer's End We Came to the Darkening Sea -- I Want the Light No One Sees -- Metaphor of the Cave -- Christmas Eve, North of Dolan, Indiana -- Sonnet: The Dream Undoes Its Exposition -- Our Purpose in Speaking -- Whale, Cape Henlopen -- "Great nature has another thing to do to you and me" -- Sonnet: Lust -- Sonnet: After the Crematorium -- Catechumen -- In Memoriam Erwin Schroedinger, August 1887 - January 1961 -- Handmaiden -- Epitaph for Unwritten Poetry -- Jalousie Maladive -- Tidewater -- New Year's Day (Here is your morning sky) -- The Woman Upstairs Making Love -- Sonnet: Crucifix -- Acknowledgments.

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