The Subtle Bodies

Contents


Fireflies 6
Expulsions 9
Verge of Summer 16
Set Theory 17
Allotropes 18
Cette Obscure Clarté Qui Tombe des Étoiles 20
Black River 23
Tree Line and Meadow 25
To Those Precincts 26
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Autobiography 29
Late Morning, Verdant 31
Spring Fatalities 32
Wolf and Raven 34
Four Panels 36
Evening Apparition 41
After Plato 42
Blue-Jay, In Flight toward Pre-Emption 46
On Prokofiev’s “The Death of Tybalt” 47
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John Berryman 50
Listening to a Wasp in Mid-February 52
Access Memory 54
Evening as a Bessel Function 55
Cardinal 56
Autobiography 62
Hemlock 63
The Subtle Bodies 65
Reading Lu Yu during a Year of War 67

Notes 82