Begin again: collected poems

A woman invented fire

Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from the Work They Love

One day when I was a child

Drowning (I)

Drowning (II)

Life

Right Now

A Poem about Storytelling

A Warning

Alive

At the Battery

An Arboreal Mystery

20th Street

Spring

note to grandparents

psalm

Mulberry Street

War

For Danny

The Nature of This City

On the Fourth Floor

Winter Afternoon

Middle-Age Poem

Bob Visits Friends

On Mother's Day

Housing

Having Arrived by Bike at Battery Park

Whistlers

For George (I)

For George (II)

Certain Days

One Day

The Five-Day Week

Some Days

Vengeance

Family

Letter

My Mother: 33 Years Later

On the Bank Street Pier

Gift

No Love

Words

Quarrel

Question

Old Age Porch

Fund Appeal

For My Friend Who Planted a Tree for His Daughter Jane

Responsibility

Fear

Families

Goldenrod

What is this whiteness

When the wild strawberry leaves turn

Then

In Deepest Summer

Saint-John's-wort!

A bee!

An ant!

False strawberry is

September

The Choir Singing

Leaves

Apples

Connections: Vermont

Vietnam (I)

Connections: Vermont

Vietnam (II)

Song Stanzas of Private Luck

Some Nearly Songs. The Old Dog's Song. 34th Street Song. The Sad Children's Song

Traveler

Speaker and Speaker

Quarrel

Autumn

South Window

My Father at 85

My Father at 89

One Day I Decided

In Aix

On the Ramblas

A Tree

A Girl

Oh

In France

I Gave Away That Kid

Subway Station

Bridges

In Hanoi

1969

Two Villages

That Country

Street Corner Dialogue

Illegal Aliens

In San Salvador (I)

In San Salvador (II)

For Mike and Jeannie: Resisters

Fifteen Years Later

Learning from Barbara Deming

Happiness

Definition

Age

Love

Time

The Women's Prison: El Salvador

The Ballad of Visiting Day

The Dance in Jinotega

People in My Family

In the Bus

House: Some Instructions

The Immigrant Story

Translation

Signs

The Woman Says

Faces

It's True

Tenth Grade

The Boy

His Mother

Suppertime

How to Tell a Story (My Method)

(Most of the Time)

The Word Thrum

My Father Said

He Wanders

Four Short Pieces

The Poet's Occasional Alternative

One of the Softer Sorrows of Age

When this old body

When I Was Asked How I Could Leave Vermont in the Middle of October

Weather

In Montpelier, Vermont

Beef

NOW

Is There a Difference Between Men and Women

Reading the Newspapers at the Village Store

The Desert Wasn't Loved Enough

said Reich

What If (This Week)

This Life

Sometimes

Leaflet

I See My Friend Everywhere

A Letter

For Jan

Luck

On the Deck

For My Daughter

Therefore

In This Dream

Hand-Me-Downs

Here

Walking in the Woods.