Altitudes and Extensions (1980-1984): I: Three Darknesses- Mortal Limit- Immortality over the Dakotas- Caribou- The first time- Minnesota Recollection- Arizona midnight- Far west once- II: Rumor at twilight- Old dog dead- Hope- Why you climbed up- Literal dream- After the dinner party- Doubleness in time- Snowfall- III: New dawn- IV: The distance between: Picnic of old friends- True love- Last walk of season- Old-time childhood in Kentucky- Covered Bridge- Re-interment: Recollection of a grandfather- Last meeting- VI: Muted music- The whole question- Old photograph of the future- Why boy came to lonely place- Platonic lassitude- seasons- I. Downwardness-II. Interlude of summer- The place- First moment of autumn recognized- Paradigm of seasons- If snakes were blue- Little girl wakes early- Winter Wheat: Oklahoma- VII: Youthful picnic long ago: sad ballad on box- History during nocturnal snowfall- Whistle of the 3 A.M.- Last night train- VIII: Milton: A sonnet- Whatever you now are- Wind and Gibbon- Delusion?--No!- Question at cliff-thrust- It is not dead- Sunset- IX: Myth of mountain sunrise- From Rumor Verified (Poems 1979-1980): Chthonian revelation: A myth- Looking northward, aegeanward: Nestlings on seacliff- Going west- Rumor verified- Mountain mystery- Vermont ballad: Change of season- Dead horse in field- The corner of the eye- What voice at moth-hour- Another dimension- English cocker: old and blind- Have you ever eaten stars?- Afterward- Fear and trembling- From Being Here (Poetry 1977-1980): When life begins- Grackles, goodbye- Youthful truth-seeker, half-naked, at night, running down beach south of San Francisco- Why have I wandered the Asphalt of Midnight?- Sila- Vision- Cocktail party- The cross- Antinomy: Time and what happened- Safe in shade- From Now and Then (Poems 1976-1978): American portrait: old style- Amazing grace in the back country- Boy wandering in Simms' Valley- Red-tail hawk and pyre of youth- Star-fall- Youth stares at minoan sunset- Ah, anima!- Unless- The mission- How to tell a love story- Little black heart of the telephone- Heart of autumn- From Can I see Arcturus From Where I Stand? (Poems 1975)- A way to love god- Evening hawk- Paradox- Midnight outcry- Old nigger on one-mule cart encountered late at night when driving home from party in the back country- From Or Else (Poems 1968-1974): The nature of a mirror- Natural history- Blow, west wind- I am dreaming of a white Christmas: the natural history of a Vision- Rattlesnake Country- Homage to Theodore Dreiser: Psychological profile- Stargazing- Little boy and lost shoe- There's a grandfather's clock in the hall- Reading late at night, thermometer falling- Folly on royal street before the raw face of God- Birth of love- Audubon: a vision- I. Was not the lost dauphin- II. The dream he never knew the end of- III. We are only ourselves- The sign whereby he knew- V. The sound of that wind- VI. Love and knowledge- VII. Tell me a story- From Incarnations (poems 1966-1968): Where the slow fig's purple sloth- Riddle in the garden- The red mullet- Masts at dawn- The leaf- From Tale of Time (Poems 1960-1966): Tale of Time: I. What happened- II. The mad druggist- III. Answer yes or no- IV. The interim- V. What were you thinking, dear mother?- VI. Insomnia- Elijah on Mount Carmel- Love: two vignettes- 1. Mediterranean Beach, Day after storm- 2. Deciduous spring- From You, Emperors, and others (Poems 1957-1960): Tiberius on Capri- Mortmain- Debate: question, quarry, dream- From Promises- To a little girl, one year old, in a ruined fortress- I. Sirocco- II. The child next door- Infant boy at midcentury- 1. When the century dragged-2. Brightness of distance- Man in moonlight- Dragon country: to Jacob Boehme- Lullaby: smile in sleep- Lullaby: a motion like sleep- School lesson based on word of tragic death of entire Gillum family- Founding fathers, early-nineteenth century style, Southeast U.S.A- From Selected Poems (1923-1943): The ballad of Billie Potts- Original sin: a short story- Eidolon- Revelation- Bearded oaks- Picnic remembered- The garden- The return: an elegy- Kentucky mountain farm- I. Rebuke of the rocks- II. At the hour of the breaking of the rocks- III. History among the rocks- IV. Watershed- The Return- Pondy woods- To a face in the cround