Transfigured Night
Modern Love
Oedipus at Colonus
3/21/82
Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Bob Mould
That summer
“roman à clef”
Mercy Mercy Me
I’ll be around you because I’m crazy about you
My dear Jim
Forty years is a long time to be misunderstood
“tempus fugit”
Enough; no more. ‘Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
I slumbered with your poems
CHAPTER I: Down The Rabbit Hole
Hero
The Auroras of Autumn
Summer of 1973
I sat upon the shore fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Not Troy
He thought he kept the universe alone
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me
Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap…
“What is wrong with woollen gloves?”
I said, Lord, take me downtown
Love And A Question
“Right, Back”
Flat Tire (The Truth)
Tommy Wilhelm
Donna, donna, dark
“fragment”
Fame
Remembering Huxley
Cameo Appearance
My Cheese Drawing
Technicolor
Cuts Both Ways
At the barbershop all day. Beth, what can I do?
SCENE V: A hall in Capulet’s house.
Lynx Eye
“Ars Nova (1980)”
One Art
“The past is a foreign country…”
“And sweetest in the gale is heard…”
“Now Close the Windows”
“Who has the most matches?”
“tanglewood in blue”
miles to go
“The problem with life is that it’s too daily.”
The Calling
“open tuning (august, 1981)”
Mindfulness
Tender is the night… but here there is no light
We gotta get right back to where we started from
“doppelgänger”
Zeno In Love
Astrophil and Stella 71: Bad Time
Pretzel Logic
I come in last night about half past ten…
“I’ve long wanted to ask you one thing.”
Lost Summer
But, soft! what light through yonder trolley tunnel breaks?
The Myth Of Sisyphus
1985
Say Yeah
A Modern Aeneid
Sure (Ulysses)
Vanity Fair
Mother’s Day
Meanwhile across town…
“In Time of Storm”
impressionism
“winter”
I met her on the strip. It was another lost weekend.
reverie
Call me Ishmael.
storm
pianoforte
Ode to a Nightingale
“nocturne”
Inebriate of air am I
“the bends”
This is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind.
-6℉ of Separation
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A Game of Chess
As You Like It
Who is it that can tell me who I am?
[Algernon is rather taken aback.]
Straight Ahead
More Light
I Want To Be Your Man
“On First Looking Into Greene’s Chord Chemistry”
“The Year Of Living Collinsly (1985)”
CHAPTER 2
Barter
From Dawn To Dusk
“simultaneity”
Hyperion Summer
Into The Fire
Saving Grace
Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
CHAPTER I: Arrival
I’m out here in the meadow
ACT 2, SCENE 1: A wood near Athens.
“a closed book”
“The Strayed Poet” (for R.L.B.)
I Want You Back
“back issue (june, 1981)”
They Shut Me Up In Prose
Wallflower
Give All To Love
Loomings
“returner”
ACT I, SCENE II: A café near the Duke’s palace.
The Atomic Age
Renaissance
Mirage
April is the cruellest month
Livin’ It Up
“fluorescence”
“Once Again To Zelda”
“errata”
Aaron Copland invents the sound of pop music
For Guy
The Voice
Watermark
“There’s the thrush again…”
I’m with you
After you go I’ll have a lot more room in my closet
Love Won’t Let Me Wait
A Voice of One’s Own
“What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman…”
Love For Sale
“ricorro al tempo ch’ i’ vi vidi prima…”
Summer of 1977
How to Regain Your Soul
A Turning Point
Chapter 56: In which our hero falls into a nostalgic reverie…
“Attention Shoppers…”
accompagnato
“This above all: to thine own self be true”
Having it Out with Melancholy
On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye
Astrophil and Stella
antediluvian (august, 1986)
“and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well…”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on…”
